Opinion ID: 2591097
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: The Philip Wyers Matter

Text: Philip Wyers is the president and sole owner of Wyers Products Group, Inc. Respondent had been counsel for Mr. Wyers' company for the last ten years. His responsibilities included filing patent and trademark applications, contact with possible patent infringers, and the handling of patent infringement cases. On July 26, 2007, Mr. Wyers remitted a payment of $5,000.00 to Respondent to retain an expert witness to aid him in a patent infringement case. On November 9, 2007, Mr. Wyers sent Respondent an additional $40,000.00 to pay the remainder of the expert's bill. Mr. Wyers later learned that the expert's reports were never filed in his case and that the expert was not paid for his work. Mr. Wyers made repeated attempts to contact Respondent beginning in February 2008. As of June 16, 2008, Respondent had failed to communicate in any way with Mr. Wyers, failed to account to Mr. Wyers for the $45,000.00 submitted by Mr. Wyers to Respondent to secure expert reports, and failed to secure the expert's report for use in Mr. Wyers' patent litigation. As a result of this conduct, Respondent violated Colo. RPC 1.1, 1.3, 1.4(a), 1.4(b) and 8.4(c).