Case Name: In the Matter of William Whitley HODGES, Respondent
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1983-05-04
Citations: 279 S.C. 128
Docket Number: 21916
Parties: In the Matter of William Whitley HODGES, Respondent.
Judges: Lewis, C. J., and Littlejohn and Ness, JJ., concur.
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 279
Pages: 128–131

Head Matter:
21916
In the Matter of William Whitley HODGES, Respondent.
(303 S. E. (2d) 89)
Atty. Gen. T. Travis Medloek and Asst. Atty. Gen. C. Havird Jones, Jr., Columbia, for complainant.
Herbert Buhl, III, Columbia, and Laughlin McDonald, Atlanta, Ga., for respondent.
May 4, 1983.

Opinion:
Per Curiam:
The Hearing Panel of the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline recommend respondent William Whitley Hodges be publicly reprimanded for professional misconduct. The Executive Committee concurs in the Panel's findings of misconduct, but recommends a private reprimand. We agree with the Panel the appropriate sanction is public reprimand.
The misconduct arises from advertisements published by respondent in The State newspaper. The advertisements are remarkably similar tó the ones we recently disapproved in In the Matter of Harvey William Burgess, 302 S. E. (2d) 325 (S. C. 1983).
We find the advertisements are misleading and violate DR2-101. Accordingly, respondent William Whitley Hodges stands publicly reprimanded.
Lewis, C. J., and Littlejohn and Ness, JJ., concur.
Gregory and Harwell, JJ., dissent.