Case Name: In the MATTER OF Christopher West HYDE, an Attorney at Law (Attorney No. 031441987)
Court: New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 2017-12-08
Citations: 173 A.3d 1093
Docket Number: D–161 September Term 2016; 079522
Parties: In the MATTER OF Christopher West HYDE, an Attorney at Law (Attorney No. 031441987)
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 173
Pages: 1093–1093

Head Matter:
In the MATTER OF Christopher West HYDE, an Attorney at Law (Attorney No. 031441987)
D-161 September Term 2016
079522
Supreme Court of New Jersey.
December 8, 2017
ORDER

Opinion:
The Disciplinary Review Board having filed with the Court its decision in DRB 16-385, concluding that CHRISTOPHER WEST HYDE of NEWTON, who was admitted to the bar of this State in 1987, should be censured for violating RPC 1.5(b) (failure to set forth in writing the basis or rate of a fee) and RPC 8.1(b) (failure to cooperate with an ethics investigation), and good cause appearing;
It is ORDERED that CHRISTOPHER WEST HYDE is hereby censured; and it is further
ORDERED that the entire record of this matter be made a permanent part of respondent's file as an attorney at law of this State; and it is further
ORDERED that respondent reimburse the Disciplinary Oversight Committee for appropriate administrative costs and actual expenses incurred in the prosecution of this matter, as provided in Rule 1:20-17.