Court Opinion

ID: 9586984
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:17:04.21411+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:58.299410
License: Public Domain

MOSK, J., Concurring and Dissenting.
I agree that petitioner’s conduct in handling the Calhoune matter was devious and unprincipled. I also agree that he has not been candid with the State Bar in its investigation and hearings.
However, these were several aspects of one disputed transaction involving one client and one law firm. There is no extended pattern of dishonesty or deceit indicating a consistent course of conduct, or any convincing evidence that petitioner is a practitioner unworthy of trust by the public generally.
Therefore I would not disbar petitioner. Rather I would suspend him from practice for two years and place him on probation for an additional *130period of time thereafter, with the usual State Bar conditions, including a requirement of complete restitution.