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Wood and his secretary told the client you would serve his wife by publication. The client checked the newspaper over the next several weeks but never saw the publication notice. During the course of the representation, the client experienced difficulty communicating with Wood. Five days after the client filed a bar complaint, and seven months after he was retained, Wood filed the divorce case.
Wood did not attempt service by publication until May 15, Service was perfected by publication on May 29, The court records reflect that he did not file these documents. In his response to the bar complaint, Wood stated that the case was progressing; that the divorce was now contested because of a property dispute; and that the client was satisfied. However, his client indicated he was anything but satisfied and that he does not have any more money to retain a subsequent lawyer.
The client is still having trouble communicating with Wood. The court record reflects nothing has been done in the case since Wood filed the complaint and that no answer or default judgment has been filed. With this conduct, Wood failed to provide competent representation to his client, willfully neglected a legal matter entrusted to him, failed to keep his client reasonably informed about the status of his matter and promptly complying with request for information, engaged in conduct that was prejudicial to the administration of justice, and engaged in conduct that adversely reflects in his fitness to practice law.
On July 29, , the Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar entered an order imposing reciprocal discipline on an attorney in the form of a private reprimand, pursuant to… Read more ». Because the attorney had previously consented to the issuance of a private reprimand, none of the three exceptions to reciprocal discipline existed in this case.
On April 13, , the Disciplinary Commission of the Alabama State Bar issued a private reprimand to an attorney for violating Rules 1. In August , the attorney was approached by the owner of property where the attorney previously performed a title search and was the closing attorney for the redemption of property in The owner recorded the deed; however, the tax office continued to list the original owner on the deed.
The tax records indicated the original owner had been paying taxes on the property since , four years after the attorney conducted the title search and closing the redemption of the property. The owner was unable to remove the original property owner from the deed and he asked the attorney to assist him with the matter.
The attorney agreed to assist him and asked him for a few days to research the problem. Thereafter, the attorney failed to communicate with the owner or failed to take any action on his behalf to resolve the discrepancy in the ownership of the property.
The attorney agreed to assist the owner in resolving the title to the property. By October , the attorney failed to take any action to clear the title to the property. The Office of General Counsel spoke with the attorney on October 28, and January 25, and each time the attorney promised to take steps to resolve the matter. On March 8, , the Office of General counsel again contacted the attorney by email and the attorney was offered another opportunity to resolve the matter asked to contact the Office of General Counsel immediately.
The attorney failed to respond. On August 17, , the Disciplinary Commission of the Alabama State Bar ordered that an attorney receive a private reprimand for violating Rules 3. While representing a client in a domestic relations matter, the client sent an email to the attorney and the opposing party.
The opposing party was represented by counsel at the time. As such, while the attorney was not attempting to gain an advantage in the litigation, the attorney violated Rule 4. On September 17, , the respondent attorney received a private reprimand for violating Rule 8. I had no idea how the process worked or what to expect. He went above and….
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