Prior Record No Bar To Admission On Motion

A disciplinary record in another jurisdiction is not a bar to admission on motion, according to an opinion granting admission to an applicant by the Nebraska Supreme Court.

The court admitted the attorney based on its de novo review of the adverse decision by the State Bar Commission.

The applicant is an honorably discharged Navy veteran.

She was admitted in Colorado in 2008 and Alabama in 2000. She has no disciplinary record in Colorado but was the subject of several disciplinary invesigations in Alabama.

She is in good standing in both jurisdictions.

Most of the Alabama  complaints were “screened out” or dismissed. These were not disclosed in the Nebraska application, which the applicant stated was an oversight.

She disclosed two other actions –a private and a public reprimand.

There were also issues involving non-disclosure of a criminal record and her credit history.

The court

While we do not condone these inaccuracies in [her] application, we are willing to accept [her] explanations and conclude that they are not indicative of reckless behavior which would preclude her admission in Nebraska.

(Mike Frisch)