Title: Office of Lawyer Regulation v. David L. DenHartigh
Citation: 2005 WI 155
Docket Number: 2005AP002051-D
State: Wisconsin
Issuer: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Date: November 11, 2005

2005 WI 155 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
CASE NO.: 
2005AP2051-D 
 
 
COMPLETE TITLE: 
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 
Against David L. DenHartigh, Attorney at Law: 
 
 
Office of Lawyer Regulation, 
          Complainant, 
     v. 
David L. DenHartigh, 
          Respondent. 
 
 
 
 
DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS AGAINST DENHARTIGH 
 
 
OPINION FILED: 
November 11, 2005   
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2005 WI 155
 
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.  2005AP2051-D  
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 
Against David L. DenHartigh, Attorney at Law: 
 
 
Office of Lawyer Regulation, 
 
          Complainant, 
 
     v. 
 
David L. DenHartigh, 
 
          Respondent. 
 
FILED 
 
NOV 11, 2005 
 
Cornelia G. Clark 
Clerk of Supreme Court 
Madison, WI 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Court entered the following order on this date: 
 
On August 10, 2005, the Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) 
filed a disciplinary complaint against Attorney David L. 
DenHartigh asking this court to impose reciprocal discipline 
identical to that imposed on Attorney DenHartigh in the Oregon 
Supreme Court.  That court suspended Attorney DenHartigh’s law 
license for 90 days, effective July 1, 2005.  On August 12, 
2005, this court issued an order to show cause directing 
Attorney DenHartigh to show cause in writing by August 31, 2005 
why the imposition of the identical discipline imposed by the 
Oregon Supreme Court would be unwarranted.  Attorney DenHartigh 
failed to respond to the order to show cause. 
 
Attorney DenHartigh was admitted to practice law in 
Wisconsin on November 23, 1982 and he became licensed to 
practice law in Oregon on April 26, 1991.   
 
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The 90-day suspension in Oregon resulted from neglecting a 
legal matter entrusted to the lawyer, failing to carry out a 
contract 
of 
employment 
entered 
into 
with 
a 
client 
for 
professional services, failing to maintain client funds in 
trust, and failing to maintain complete records of all funds, 
securities, and other properties of a client coming into the 
possession of the lawyer and render appropriate accounts to the 
lawyer’s client regarding them in violation of the Oregon Code 
of Professional Responsibility.   
 
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 DenHartigh 
contend, nor does this court find, that any of these three 
exceptions exist.  
 
Accordingly, 
 
IT IS ORDERED that the license of David L. DenHartigh to 
practice law in the State of Wisconsin be suspended for 90 days, 
effective the date of this order; 
 
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Attorney DenHartigh shall 
comply, if he has not already done so, with the requirements of 
SCR 22.26 pertaining to activities following suspension. 
 
 
 
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