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SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN

CASE NO.: 2023AP1332-D

COMPLETE TITLE: In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 

Against Erick R. Tyrone, Attorney at Law:

Office of Lawyer Regulation,

 Complainant,

 v.

Erick R. Tyrone,

 Respondent.

DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS AGAINST TYRONE

OPINION FILED: February 27, 2024 

SUBMITTED ON BRIEFS: 

ORAL ARGUMENT: 

SOURCE OF APPEAL:

COURT: 

COUNTY: 

JUDGE: 

JUSTICES:

Per curiam. 

ATTORNEYS:
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NOTICE

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No. 2023AP1332-D

STATE OF WISCONSIN : IN SUPREME COURT

In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 

Against Erick R. Tyrone, Attorney at Law:

Office of Lawyer Regulation,

 Complainant,

 v.

Erick R. Tyrone,

 Respondent.

FILED

FEB 27, 2024

Samuel A. Christensen

Clerk of Supreme Court

ATTORNEY disciplinary proceeding. Attorney's license 

suspended. 

¶1 PER CURIAM. The Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) and 

Attorney Erick R. Tyrone have filed a stipulation pursuant to 

Supreme Court Rule (SCR) 22.12,1 that Attorney Tyrone's license to 

 

1 SCR 22.12 states:

(1) The director may file with the complaint a 

stipulation of the director and the respondent to the 

facts, conclusions of law regarding misconduct, and 

discipline to be imposed, together with a memorandum in 

support of the stipulation. The respondent may file a 

response to the director's memorandum within 14 days of 

the date of filing of the stipulation. The supreme court 
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practice law in this state should be suspended for a period of six 

months, as discipline reciprocal to that imposed by the Court of 

Appeals of Maryland. After reviewing the matter, we approve the 

stipulation and impose the stipulated reciprocal discipline. The 

OLR does not seek costs, and we do not impose any. 

¶2 Attorney Tyrone was admitted to the practice of law in 

Wisconsin in 2009. He was admitted to the practice of law in 

Maryland in 2012 and in the District of Columbia in 2016. His 

Wisconsin law license has been suspended since 2012 for failure to 

 

may consider the complaint and stipulation without the 

appointment of a referee, in which case the supreme court 

may approve the stipulation, reject the stipulation, or 

direct the parties to consider specific modifications to 

the stipulation. 

(2) If the supreme court approves a stipulation, it shall 

adopt the stipulated facts and conclusions of law and 

impose the stipulated discipline. 

(3) If the supreme court rejects a stipulation, a referee 

shall be appointed and the matter shall proceed as a 

complaint filed without a stipulation. 

(3m) If the supreme court directs the parties to consider 

specific modifications to the stipulation, the parties 

may, within 20 days of the date of the order, file a 

revised stipulation, in which case the supreme court may 

approve the revised stipulation, adopt the stipulated 

facts and conclusions of law, and impose the stipulated 

discipline. If the parties do not file a revised 

stipulation within 20 days of the date of the order, a 

referee shall be appointed and the matter shall proceed 

as a complaint filed without a stipulation.

(4) A stipulation rejected by the supreme court has no 

evidentiary value and is without prejudice to the 

respondent's defense of the proceeding or the 

prosecution of the complaint.
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pay State Bar dues, failure to file an OLR trust account 

certification certificate, and failure to comply with continuing 

legal education requirements. Attorney Tyrone has no prior 

discipline in Wisconsin.

¶3 On July 26, 2023, OLR filed a complaint alleging that on 

September 7, 2021, the Court of Appeals of Maryland ordered the 

Indefinite Suspension by Consent of Attorney Tyrone's license to 

practice law in Maryland, with the right to petition for 

reinstatement after six months. Attorney Tyrone was disciplined 

in Maryland for failing to represent his client competently; 

failing to safe-keep client funds in an attorney trust account; 

engaging in conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of 

justice; failing to comply with attorney trust account record 

keeping; and prohibited transaction requirements and commingling 

funds.

¶4 On September 30, 2022, the District of Columbia Court of 

Appeals filed an order suspending Attorney Tyrone's license to 

practice law in the District of Columbia on an interim basis. The 

interim suspension was based on consideration of the order of the 

Court of Appeals of Maryland suspending Attorney Tyrone's law 

license indefinitely with the right to petition for reinstatement 

after six months.

¶5 Count one of OLR's complaint alleged that by virtue of 

the Maryland disciplinary suspension, Attorney Tyrone is subject 

to reciprocal discipline in Wisconsin pursuant to SCR 22.22. Count 

two of OLR's complaint alleged that by failing to notify OLR of 

the Maryland disciplinary suspension within 20 days of the 
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effective date of that jurisdiction's imposition of public 

discipline for professional misconduct, Attorney Tyrone violated 

SCR 22.22(1).2

¶6 Under SCR 22.22(3),3 this court shall impose the 

identical discipline imposed in another jurisdiction, unless one 

or more of three exceptions apply. In his stipulation with OLR, 

Attorney Tyrone states that he is not claiming any of the defenses 

found in SCR 22.22(3). 

¶7 In the stipulation, Attorney Tyrone further represents 

that the stipulation was not the result of plea bargaining and 

that he does not contest the facts and misconduct alleged by OLR 

or the reciprocal discipline OLR seeks in this matter. 

 

2 SCR 22.22(1) provides: "An attorney on whom public 

discipline for misconduct or a license suspension for medical 

incapacity has been imposed by another jurisdiction shall promptly 

notify the director of the matter. Failure to furnish the notice 

within 20 days of the effective date of the order or judgment of 

the other jurisdiction constitutes misconduct."

3 SCR 22.22(3) provides: 

The supreme court shall impose the identical discipline 

or license suspension unless one or more of the following 

is present: 

(a) The procedure in the other jurisdiction was so 

lacking in notice or opportunity to be heard as to 

constitute a deprivation of due process. 

(b) There was such an infirmity of proof establishing 

the misconduct or medical incapacity that the supreme 

court could not accept as final the conclusion in respect 

to the misconduct or medical incapacity. 

(c) The misconduct justifies substantially different 

discipline in this state.
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¶8 After reviewing this matter, we accept the stipulation 

and impose the identical discipline imposed by the Court of Appeals 

of Maryland, namely a six-month suspension of Attorney Tyrone's 

license to practice law in this state. 

¶9 IT IS ORDERED that the license of Erick R. Tyrone to 

practice law in Wisconsin is suspended for a period of six months, 

effective the date of this order.

¶10 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, to the extent he has not 

already done so, Erick R. Tyrone shall comply with the provisions 

of SCR 22.26 concerning the duties of a person whose license to 

practice law in Wisconsin has been suspended.

¶11 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that compliance with all 

conditions of this order is required for reinstatement. See SCR 

22.29(4)(c). 

¶12 IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the administrative 

suspensions of Erick R. Tyrone's license to practice law in 

Wisconsin, due to his failure to pay bar dues, failure to file an 

OLR trust account certification certificate, and failure to comply 

with continuing legal education requirements, will remain in 

effect until each reason for the administrative suspensions have 

been rectified, pursuant to SCR 22.28(1).
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