Opinion ID: 1925629
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 8

Heading: Letters and review of motion.

Text: In her voucher, Respondent also asserted that she spent one and one-half hours in drafting each of two brief letters, one letter of instruction to her client, the other a communication to an Assistant United States Attorney relating to discovery. Respondent testified that the letter to her client was prepared from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on February 15, 2002. Her calendar, however, contained a notation that the letter was drafted from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on the previous day. The Hearing Committee was obviously skeptical of Respondent's assertions regarding the time she claimed to have devoted to these letters, but there was no specific finding by the Committee or by the Board as to whether or not these individual claims were false or inflated. The letters were, however, a part of the evidence on which the Committee and the Board relied in finding that Bar Counsel had proved dishonesty. [10]