Title: Office of Lawyer Regulation v. Torger G. Omdahl
Citation: 2010 WI 18
Docket Number: 2009AP000957-D
State: Wisconsin
Issuer: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Date: March 18, 2010

2010 WI 18 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
CASE NO.: 
2009AP957-D 
COMPLETE TITLE: 
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 
Against Torger G. Omdahl, Attorney at Law: 
 
Office of Lawyer Regulation, 
          Complainant, 
     v. 
Torger G. Omdahl, 
          Respondent. 
 
 
 
 
MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION 
2010 WI 3 
Reported at: ___ Wis. 2d ___, 777 N.W.2d 634 
(S.Ct. 2010-Published) 
 
 
OPINION FILED: 
March 18, 2010   
SUBMITTED ON BRIEFS: 
        
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CONCURRED: 
        
 
DISSENTED: 
        
 
NOT PARTICIPATING:         
 
 
 
ATTORNEYS: 
 
      
 
 
 
 
2010 WI 18
NOTICE 
This opinion is subject to further 
editing and modification.  The final 
version will appear in the bound 
volume of the official reports.   
No.  2009AP957-D  
 
 
STATE OF WISCONSIN  
 
 
   : 
IN SUPREME COURT 
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 
Against Torger G. Omdahl, Attorney at Law: 
 
Office of Lawyer Regulation, 
 
          Complainant, 
 
     v. 
 
Torger G. Omdahl, 
 
          Respondent. 
 
FILED 
 
MAR 18, 2010 
 
David R. Schanker 
Clerk of Supreme Court 
 
 
 
 
 
MOTION for reconsideration.   Reconsideration denied. 
 
¶1 
PER CURIAM.   This is a motion for reconsideration 
filed by the respondent, Attorney Torger G. Omdahl, seeking 
clarification or modification of portions of the opinion issued 
in this matter on January 21, 2010.  The motion contends that 
certain facts described in the opinion, which were based upon 
the 2008 Michigan disciplinary complaint, are inaccurate because 
the subsequent stipulation in the 2008 Michigan disciplinary 
proceeding called for certain professional misconduct charges to 
be dismissed.   
No. 
2009AP957-D   
 
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¶2 
The motion ignores the fact, however, that the first 
paragraph of the 2008 Michigan stipulation states as follows:  
"Respondent, Torger G. Omdahl, pleads no contest to the factual 
allegations contained in Formal Complaint ADB Case No. 08-138-
GA."  Thus, while certain charges of rule violations were 
dismissed pursuant to the stipulation, Attorney Omdahl pled no 
contest to all of the factual allegations in the 2008 Michigan 
complaint.  This court's opinion accurately summarizes those 
factual allegations.   
¶3 
Accordingly, the motion for reconsideration is denied, 
but the original opinion is modified by substituting the word 
"Medicare" for the word "Medicaid" in ¶4 and by deleting ¶6 as 
follows: 
¶4 
The 
second 
public 
reprimand 
was 
issued 
in 
December 2008 by the State of Michigan Attorney 
Discipline Board, Upper Peninsula Hearing Panel #2, 
again pursuant to Attorney Omdahl's stipulation.  This 
public 
reprimand 
grew 
out 
of 
Attorney 
Omdahl's 
handling of certain settlement funds belonging to 
client F.T.4  Attorney Omdahl withheld $5,000 from a 
settlement that Attorney Omdahl received on F.T.'s 
behalf on the alleged ground that the funds needed to 
be maintained in trust in case a Medicare lien was 
filed.  Attorney Omdahl placed the $5,000 of F.T.'s 
money into an account that his firm considered a 
client trust account, but which was not specifically 
designated as a trust account in the bank's records 
establishing the account. 
¶6 
[Deleted] 
                                                 
4 The facts regarding this public reprimand are taken from 
the factual allegations of the Michigan complaint, to which 
Attorney Omdahl pled no contest. 
No. 
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