Court Opinion

ID: 9772128
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 17:08:18.395395+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:42.250441
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BLACKMAR, Judge,
concurring in result.
The record adequately supports reprimand because of the delay in handling the client’s business. I have reservations about the portion dealing with respondent’s having accepted a bankruptcy case at a time when she was not admitted to practice in the United States District Court. It is not unusual for an attorney to accept a case in a court or tribunal in which he or she has not been formally admitted, and to initiate an application for admission so as to be able to go forward when appearance is necessary.
It is also common practice, in cases in the Supreme Court of the United States and elsewhere, to obtain the signature of an admitted attorney. Admission and competency are not the same.
Here the petition in bankruptcy was never completed and filed and so I doubt that the failure to obtain admission furnishes additional ground for reprimand.