Northern Expansion Draws Southern Reprimand

The Georgia Supreme Court has accepted a petition for voluntary discipline and reprimanded an attorney who had improperly solicited legal business from Rhode Island clients.

The court

The petition discloses that [the attorney] allowed a non-lawyer office manager to manage the expansion of the firm to Rhode Island, that he did not monitor this employee’s activities, and that in responding to Bar authorities, he relied upon information provided by the employee. He did not obtain any clients from the solicitation letters.

Further, the court cited the attorney’s remorse, lack of prior discipline, serious health problems at the time and full cooperation with the Rhode Island investigation.

 The Rhose Island order is linked here. (Mike Frisch)