Opinion ID: 1942288
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Misconduct Charged in the California Proceeding

Text: The disciplinary charges pending at the time Respondent tendered his resignation from the California Bar were based on Respondent's previous admission in a proceeding in the Supreme Court of Florida (before a referee) that, in two matters, he had engaged in the unauthorized practice of law in Florida. See Conditional Guilty Plea and Consent to Judgment for Discipline, filed by Respondent on March 21, 2005 in Florida Supreme Court Case No. SC04-1598, attached to the Statement of Bar Counsel in Exhibit B (Record Index Tab 11, Ex. B). The California Bar charged that Respondent's Florida misconduct constituted practicing law in a jurisdiction where to do so would be in violation of regulations of the profession in that jurisdiction in violation of Rule 1-300(B) of the California disciplinary rules and also violated §§ 6068(a), 6103, 6106 and 6127 California Business and Professions Code. [2] Those charges never were heard, but were dismissed by the State Bar Court of California on December 28, 2005, after the California Supreme Court accepted Respondent's resignation from the California Bar.