Title: Office of Lawyer Regulation v. Timothy Michael Whiting
Citation: 2003 WI 124
Docket Number: 2003AP001700-D
State: Wisconsin
Issuer: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Date: August 13, 2003

2003 WI 124 
 
 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
CASE NO.: 
03-1700-D 
 
 
 
COMPLETE TITLE: 
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 
Against Timothy Michael Whiting,  
Attorney at Law: 
 
Office of Lawyer Regulation,  
          Complainant, 
     v. 
Timothy Michael Whiting,  
          Respondent. 
 
 
 
 
DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS AGAINST WHITING 
 
 
OPINION FILED: 
August 13, 2003   
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2003 WI 124 
 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
NOTICE 
This order is subject to further 
editing and modification.  The 
final version will appear in the 
bound volume of the official 
reports.   
 
 
 
No.  03-1700-D  
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 
Against Timothy Michael Whiting,  
Attorney at Law: 
 
Office of Lawyer Regulation,  
 
          Complainant, 
 
     v. 
 
Timothy Michael Whiting,  
 
          Respondent. 
 
FILED 
 
AUG 13, 2003 
 
Cornelia G. Clark 
Clerk of Supreme Court 
Madison, WI 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Court entered the following order on this date: 
 
The Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) and Attorney Timothy 
Michael Whiting have stipulated, pursuant to SCR 22.12, for 
reciprocal discipline under SCR 22.22. 
 
Attorney Whiting has been licensed to practice law in 
Wisconsin since 1994 and his Wisconsin license is currently in 
good standing.  He was admitted to practice law in Illinois in 
1995. 
 
Pursuant to a January 28, 2003 order of the Illinois 
Supreme Court, Attorney Whiting was censured for misconduct 
consisting of: 
 
• 
Soliciting professional employment from a 
prospective client who is neither a relative 
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nor close friend of the lawyer, or person 
with whom the lawyer or lawyer’s firm has 
had no prior professional relationship, and 
failing to label a letter and its envelope 
to 
a 
prospective 
client 
as 
advertising 
material, in violation of Rule 7.3(a)(1) and 
(2) of the Illinois Rules of Professional 
Conduct; 
• 
Soliciting a prospective client when the 
lawyer 
reasonably 
should 
know 
that 
the 
physical or mental state of the person is 
such that the person could not exercise 
professional judgment in employing a lawyer, 
in violation of 
Rule 7.3(b)(1) of 
the 
Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct; and 
• 
Conduct which tends to bring the courts or 
legal 
profession 
into 
disrepute, 
in 
violation of Illinois Supreme Court Rule 
771. 
 
SCR 22.22(3) provides that this court shall impose the 
identical discipline or license suspension unless the procedure 
in the 
other 
jurisdiction 
was so 
lacking 
in 
notice or 
opportunity to be heard as to constitute a due process 
violation; there was such an infirmity of proof establishing the 
misconduct that this court should not accept as final the 
misconduct finding; or the misconduct justifies substantially 
different discipline here.  Neither OLR nor Attorney Whiting 
contend, nor does this court find, that any of these three 
exceptions exist. 
 
Accordingly, 
 
IT IS ORDERED that Attorney Timothy Michael Whiting is 
publicly reprimanded. 
 
 
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