Title: Board of Attorneys Professional Responsibility v. Kathryn P. Karlsson
Citation: 2002 WI 25
Docket Number: 2000AP002043-D
State: Wisconsin
Issuer: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Date: March 15, 2002

2002 WI 25 
 
 
 
SUPREME COURT OF WISCONSIN 
 
 
 
 
 
CASE NO.: 
00-2043-D 
 
 
COMPLETE TITLE: 
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 
Against Kathryn P. Karlsson, Attorney at Law. 
 
Board of Attorneys Professional Responsibility,  
 
Complainant, 
 
v. 
Kathryn P. Karlsson,  
 
Respondent. 
 
 
 
 
MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION 
2001 WI 126 
Reported at:  248 Wis. 2d 681, 635 N.W.2d 771 
(S.Ct. 2001-Published) 
 
 
OPINION FILED: 
March 15, 2002   
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JUSTICES: 
 
 
CONCURRED: 
        
 
DISSENTED: 
        
 
NOT PARTICIPATING:         
 
 
 
ATTORNEYS: 
 
      
 
 
2002 WI 25 
NOTICE 
This opinion is subject to further 
editing and modification.  The 
final version will appear in the 
bound 
volume 
of 
the 
official 
reports.   
No.  00-2043-D  
 
STATE OF WISCONSIN  
 
 
   : 
IN SUPREME COURT 
 
 
In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings 
Against Kathryn P. Karlsson, Attorney at  
Law. 
 
Board of Attorneys Professional  
Responsibility,  
 
          Complainant, 
 
     v. 
 
Kathryn P. Karlsson,  
 
          Respondent. 
 
FILED 
 
MAR 15, 2002 
 
Cornelia G. Clark 
Clerk of Supreme Court 
 
 
 
 
 
MOTION for reconsideration.  Reconsideration denied. 
 
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PER CURIAM.   This is a motion for reconsideration 
filed by the Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR), f/k/a the Board 
of Attorneys Professional Responsibility, seeking clarification 
of the opinion issued in this matter on November 29, 2001.  The 
motion has identified two inadvertent omissions from the 
opinion.  The motion is denied but the original opinion is 
modified by adding ¶¶37a and 54a and by substituting new ¶38 as 
follows: 
No. 
00-2043-D   
 
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¶37a Based on these findings, the referee concluded 
that 
Attorney 
Karlsson's 
failure 
to comply 
with 
discovery requests and name witnesses which resulted 
in an award of costs against her client and her 
failure to enter the judgment in favor of her client, 
was a failure to act with reasonable diligence and 
promptness 
in 
representing her client, 
P.M., in 
violation of SCR 20:1.3.   
¶38 The 
referee 
also 
concluded 
that 
Attorney 
Karlsson's failure to respond to numerous telephone 
calls made by or on behalf of P.M. inquiring as to the 
status or outcome of his personal injury action, 
constituted a failure to keep her client reasonably 
informed about the status of the matter and her 
failure to respond to a client's reasonable request 
for information in violation in SCR 20:1.4(a). 
¶54a IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that for a period of two 
years 
after 
reinstatement 
Attorney 
Karlsson 
must 
arrange for another attorney, approved by the OLR 
director, to monitor Attorney Karlsson's practice in 
quarterly meetings with her at which the status of 
Attorney Karlsson's client files will be reviewed and 
the monitoring attorney will then submit quarterly 
reports to the OLR on the status of all pending 
matters in Attorney Karlsson's practice.  
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