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JAMIE L. TURNER MOVANT 

KBA Member No. 93293 

V. IN SUPREME COURT 

KENTUCKY BAR ASSOCIATION RESPONDENT 

OPINION AND ORDER 

Jamie L. Turner was admitted to the practice of law in October 2009: 

Turner's bar roster address is 212 West Eighth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202, 

and her KBA number is 93293. 

Pursuant to Supreme Court Rule {SCR) 3.675, Turner's license to 

practice law was suspended for failure to comply with continuing legal 

education {CLE) requirements on January 20, 2017. Turner filed a 

"Notice/Request for Appeal of Suspended License" on March 20, 2017 

appealing that suspension. The Kentucky Bar Association .(KBA) filed a 

response requesting that this Court require Turner "to go through the 

restoration process just like the other KBA former members who were 

suspended for failure to meet their ... (CLE] licensure requirements." . For the 

following reasons, we agree with the KBA and adopt its recommendation that 
Turner should not be exempt from the restoration process set forth in the 

Supreme Court Rules. 

I. BACKGROUND. 

The Director of Continuing Legal Education determined that Turner was 

deficient the entire twelve credits required for educational year 2015-2016 and 

0.75 ethics credits for educational year 2014-2015. Because of Turner's 

deficiency, the Director sent correspondence and email notices to Turner. 

Additionally, CLE department staff spoke with Turner several times when ·she 

called seeking additional time to request an extension. Despite being granted 

an extension for the 2014-2015 educational year, Turner did not cure that 

deficiency. 

In November 2016, Turner called the KBA to discuss her 2015-2016 year 

deficiency and was told that she would be certified as non -compliant if she 

could not show some hardship or report timely earned credits. When Turner 

failed to do either, the KBA issued a show-cause notice requiring Turner to 

explain her failure to comply. Turner did not respond; therefore, the KBA 

suspended Turner on Jariuary 20, 2017. The notice of suspension advised 

Turner that she could seek reinstatement pursuant to SCR 3.500 or that she 

could appeal her suspension within 30 days. Turner did not timely file her 

appeal but did seek an extension to do so, which this Court granted. 

On :tvi;arch 20, 2017, Turner filed the above mentioned Notice/~equest for 

Appeal of Suspended License. In her Notice and an attached affidavit, Turner 

sta;tes that s_he attended two three-day conferences in February 2015 and 

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February 2016, which should have earned her 11.5 hours of CLE credit for 

each year. However, for reasons Turner cannot explain, those hours were not 

reported to the KBA. Turner states that she did not realize that the hours had 

not been reported until she :received the notice of suspension. According to 

Turner, she did'not open any mail from the KBA because she believed it was 

regarding her bar dues, not CLE. When she became aware of the deficiency, 

. Turner took an online CLE course.and attended a webcast, which provided a . . 

combined 18 hours of credit .. She also stated that ·she was in the process of 

applying for approval of the credits she earned in February 2016 and that, once 

approved, she will be in compliance. 

D. ANALYSIS. 

SCR 3.645( 1) provides that "every person licensed to practice law in this 

Commonwealth ... shall complete and certify a minimum of 12 credit hours in 

continuingJegal education activities ... including a minimum of 2 credit hours 

devoted to 'ethics, professional respcin.sibility and professionalism"' during 

"[e]ach educational.year." There is no dispute that Turner failed to meet the 

preceding requirements duririg the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 educational 

. years. The only dispute is whether Turner should be relieved from complying 

. with the restoration requirements of SCR 3.500. Turner argues that she 

should be excused from compliance .because she inadvertently failed to realize 

she was deficient until November 2016. The KBA argues that this excuse lacks 

merit because its personnel made numerous attempts to contact Turner by 

mail and email and there were multiple telephone calls to and from Turner 

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regarding her deficiencies. The KBA also notes Turner;s failure to respond to 

the show-cause notice, her dilatoriness in filing her appeal, and her failure to 

make any attempt to comply with the restoration requirements of SCR 3.500 

negate Turner's argument. 

We agree with the KBA that Turner has not provided a sufficient basis to 

relieve her from the suspension and the requirements of SCR 3.500. The KBA 

provided more than sufficient notice to Turner of her deficiency, and she has 

offered no viable excuse for ignoring that notice. Therefore, Turner's· 

suspension shall remain in effect until such time as she complies with SCR 

3.500. 

ACCORDINGLY, IT IS ORDERED THAT: 

Jamie L. Turner's Notice/Request for Appeal of Suspended License is 

denied, and she shall remain suspended pursuant to the KBA's January 20, 

2017. Notice of Suspension until such time as she complies with the 

appropriate restoration provisions of SCR 3.500. 

All sitting. All concur. 

ENTERED: June 15, 2017. 

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