Opinion ID: 2054193
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Heading: Complaint of Anthony J. Corbin, Sr.

Text: Respondent excepts to Judge Jacobson's finding that the Complainant returned the proposed consent order but Respondent did not make the changes Complainant requested and did not communicate with Complainant despite Complainant's several attempts to contact him. We uphold this exception in part, and overrule it in part. The evidence indicates that Corbin spoke to Respondent's secretary on the phone and requested that corrections be made to the proposed consent order before he would sign it. Respondent, however, failed to make the desired corrections or take any further action. Corbin then discharged Respondent from any further representation in September, 1991, months after the consent order was first drafted and should have been resolved. Respondent also was negligent in failing to move to strike his appearance and in failing to forward the notice of contemplated dismissal that was mailed to him in 1992. Respondent next excepts to Judge Jacobson's finding with respect to the calendar call, specifically that [d]espite several attempts, Mr. Corbin did not hear from Respondent until August 10, 1991 when he left a message stating that Mr. Corbin need not appear for the hearing. This finding is supported by the transcript of the Inquiry Panel testimony of Mr. Corbin, which was admitted at the hearing before Judge Jacobson by stipulation. This exception is overruled.