Opinion ID: 1156716
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Text: This Court has previously held in the case of State ex rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Braswell, 663 P.2d 1228, 1232 (Okl. 1983), that where, as here, an attorney is guilty of neglect of a legal matter without affirmative acts of harmful conduct, the appropriate discipline is public censure. IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED by the Court that respondent, William D. Borders, be, and he is hereby, censured and reprimanded for the reasons set out hereinabove. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that respondent pay all costs incurred by complainant in the course of these proceedings. DONE BY THE SUPREME COURT IN CONFERENCE THIS 5th DAY OF JUNE, 1989. LAVENDER, DOOLIN, ALMA WILSON, KAUGER and SUMMERS, JJ., concur. HARGRAVE, C.J., and OPALA, V.C.J., dissent. SIMMS, J., not participating.