Court Opinion

ID: 4200069
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-08-30 16:09:09.056898+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:14:50.019023
License: Public Domain

TO BE PUBLISHED

                jup-r:em:e 266 S.W.3d

237, 240 (Ky. 2008), in addition to other acts of misconduct, Coorssen

repeatedly failed to return his client's phone calls, failed to refund the client's

fee, and failed to turn over his client's file when the client terminated

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representation. This Court accepted the negotiated sanction in that case and

suspended Coorssen from the practice of law for one year, with one-hundred-

eighty-one days to serve and the remainder probated for two years conditioned

upon successfully completing EPEP. We believe Moore's conduct is

comparable to Coorssen's, apart from the fact that Coorssen's misconduct ·

involved multiple sets of clients. This distinction accounts for the difference

between the sixty-one day suspension to serve imposed in the current case, as

opposed to Coorssen's one-hundred-eighty-one days to serve.

                                   III.   ORDER
      Agreeing that the Board's recommendation is appropriate, it is

ORDERED that:

      1. Jeffrey Owens Moore, is found guilty of violating the Rules of

         Professional Responsibility as detailed above.

      2. Moore is suspended from the practice of law in the Commonwealth of

         Kentucky for one year, with sixty-one days to serve. The remainder of

         the suspension is probated for one year, with conditions. The

         suspension imposed by this order shall be served concurrently with

         Moore's indefinite suspension.

      3. The probation of Moore's suspension is conditioned upon his

         repayment of the $2,000 loan he borrowed from his clients. He shall

         provide proof of such payment to the Office of Bar Counsel within

         sixty days of the commencement of this suspension.

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4. Moore's probation is further conditioned upon his attendance and

    successful completion of EPEP within one year of the commencement

    of this suspension ("successful completion" includes receiving a

   passing score on the exam given at the end of EPEP). Moore will not

   apply for Continuing Legal Education credit of any kind for his

   completion of EPEP. He will furnish a release and waiver to the Office

   of Bar Counsel to review his records of the CLE Department that

   might otherwise be confidential, such release to continue in effect

   until one year after he completes f1:is remedial education, in order to

   allow the Office of Bar Counsel to verify that he has not reported any

   such hours to the CLE Commission.

5. If Moore.fails to comply with any of the terms of discipline as set forth

   herein, the Office of Bar Counsel may petition this Court to impose

   the full one-year suspension.

6. In accordance with SCR 3.450, Moore is directed to pay all costs

   associated with these disciplinary proceedings against him, said sum

   being $305.30, for which execution may issue from this Court upon

   finality of this Opinion and Order.

All sitting. All concur.

ENTERED: September 22, 2016.

                               CHI

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