Fishing And Tennis Drinking Puts Conditional Admission At Risk

An attorney conditionally admitted in Louisiana vioated the sobriety terms imposed by the bar’s lawyer assistance program (“LAP”).

The admission involved monitoring for five years.

A Hearing Board has found that he violated the conditions but proposes that he be given another opportunity to get with the program.

After over three years of sobriety, he had consumed alcohol while on a Grand Isle fishing trip and again the following weekend after a tennis tournament.

The bar’s program directed him to an inpatient program but he did not comply.

The Hearing Board noted that he “appears to be genuinely and successfully pursuing sobriety while performing at a high level as an in-house business attorney.”

It nonetheless recommends that, within 30 days, he complete a professioal assessment acceptable to the LAP and follow their course of treatment.

If he fails to do so, it recommends a two-year suspension of his conditional admission. (Mike Frisch)