Opinion ID: 2514191
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Wiederholt's past conduct

Text: The bar association notes that Wiederholt's past conduct provides strong evidence that he lacks the moral fitness to be readmitted to the Alaska Bar. As discussed, Wiederholt's past conduct is a permissible factor for the board to take into account because the conduct leading up to disbarment is relevant in assessing an applicant's moral fitness. The record does support the bar association's argumentWiederholt's misconduct was indeed serious. As this court's opinion and the attached appendices in his disbarment case indicate, Wiederholt engaged in numerous and repeated instances of misconduct over a span of four years, including committing criminal forgery, assaulting opposing counsel, engaging in abusive discovery tactics, using threatening language towards opposing counsel, and writing a threatening letter to an unrepresented claimant on behalf of a client. [45] All of these, taken together, demonstrate a pattern of serious misconduct and therefore provide some evidence that Wiederholt lacks the requisite moral fitness to be readmitted to the practice of law in Alaska.