Opinion ID: 2616592
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Heading: facts admitted by stipulation [5] count i

Text: In 1991 Sherry Long [Long] retained the respondent to secure a divorce. [6] He filed a petition in October 1991 but took no further action to Long's knowledge] until May 1992 when she received from him a set of interrogatories. While the respondent had received the interrogatories almost thirty days earlier, he gave Long only one night to prepare her responses. In May 1992 respondent informed Long that he would move for a pre-trial conference and that they would go to court the day after she returned from a planned vacation. In July 1992 Long's mother called to inquire when she had gone to court as she had read in the newspaper that the divorce had been granted. Being unaware of the divorce decree, Long called the respondent and left a message that she had seen the published notice of the divorce. Bolton returned her call indicating that he was not aware of the events in her case but would inquire about them and report back to her. Bolton later told Long that the court had conducted a pre-trial hearing, while Long was out of town on vacation, at which neither respondent nor Long appeared. The court granted a divorce to Long's husband on July 7, 1992. Next, Long discussed vacating the decree of divorce with the respondent. Long decided not to contest the default decree since she felt its terms were fair. [7] During their last consultation Long asked respondent to secure a previously-requested judicial approval of name change and to give her advice about the payment of certain bills which the court had allocated between her and her husband. Respondent wholly failed to secure Long's name change and never gave her the requested advice for the payment of the bills.