Title: Office of Lawyer Regulation v. LeRoy Kramer, III
Citation: 2006 WI 117
Docket Number: 2006AP001933-D
State: Wisconsin
Issuer: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Date: October 10, 2006

2006 WI 117 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
CASE NO.: 
2006AP1933-D 
 
 
COMPLETE TITLE: 
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings  
Against LeRoy Kramer, III, Attorney at Law: 
 
 
Office of Lawyer Regulation, 
          Complainant, 
     v. 
LeRoy Kramer, III, 
          Respondent. 
 
 
 
 
DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS AGAINST KRAMER 
 
 
OPINION FILED: 
October 10, 2006   
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2006 WI 117
 
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.  2006AP1933-D  
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings  
Against LeRoy Kramer, III, Attorney at Law: 
 
 
Office of Lawyer Regulation, 
 
          Complainant, 
 
     v. 
 
LeRoy Kramer, III, 
 
          Respondent. 
 
FILED 
 
OCT 10, 2006 
 
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 LeRoy 
Kramer, III have stipulated, pursuant to SCR 22.12, for 
reciprocal discipline under SCR 22.22. 
 
Attorney Kramer was admitted to practice law in Wisconsin 
in 1976 and he became licensed to practice law in Michigan in 
1989.  Pursuant to an April 25, 2006 order of the State of 
Michigan 
Discipline 
Board, 
Attorney 
Kramer 
was 
publicly 
reprimanded, effective May 17, 2006, for failing to provide 
competent representation to a client, in violation of Michigan 
Rule of Professional Conduct (MRPC) 1.1(a).   The finding of 
misconduct arose out of Attorney Kramer's being retained by 
Boaters Emergency Service to collect salvage costs and fees 
expended by Boaters during the salvage of four marine vessels.  
Attorney Kramer did not file lawsuits to collect the salvage 
costs and fees until after the statute of limitations in all 
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four cases had expired.  All four suits were dismissed.  
Attorney Kramer told Boaters he would re-file the four suits but 
did not do so.   
 
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 findings; or the misconduct justifies substantially 
different discipline here.  Neither the OLR nor Attorney Kramer 
contends, nor does this court find, that any of these three 
exceptions exist.  
 
Accordingly, 
 
IT 
IS 
ORDERED 
that 
LeRoy 
Kramer, 
III 
is 
publicly 
reprimanded for his misconduct, as reciprocal discipline to that 
imposed by the State of Michigan Discipline Board.   
 
 
 
No.  2006AP1933-D 
 
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