No Discipline For Driving While Impaired

The Michigan Attorney Discipline Board rejected a hearing panel recommendation for probation and entered an order of no discipline in a case involving a conviction for operating a motor vehicle while impaired. Probation was not appropriate where there was “no evidence whatsoever regarding his competence to practice law or the quality of the services rendered to his clients.” The attorney had compleed the sentence imposed in the criminal case. The Board held that the single instance of driving while impaired and evidence of “slips” were not “a sound reason for the imposition of professional discipline.” (Mike Frisch)