More On Reciprocal Discipline

The Mississippi Supreme Court issued an opinion in line with the vast majority of jurisdictions in imposing  virtually identical reciprocal discipline on an attorney who had been publicly censured in Tennessee. While the court “look[s] with extreme disfavor on a lawyer’s conversion or commingling of client’s funds…we conclude from the record before us that there is no reason to stray from the discipline imposed by the Supreme Court of Tennessee.” There rarely is any legitimate reason to second-guess the jurisdiction that actually conducts the proceeding. I’d have a lot fewer gray hairs if D.C. had seen it that way when I was with Bar Counsel. (Mike Frisch)