A Day Late

A District of Columbia Hearing Committee has recommended that a consented-to 30 day suspension with automatic reinstatement be approved for an attorney who had failed to disclose his client’s death in a telephone call with the mediator of the day before a mediation in which the client was a plaintiff in an action against her landlord for a toxic tort.

The attorney did disclose the death to the mediator on the following day at the mediation.

The committee concluded that automatic reinstatement is appropriate as the attorney had no prior discipline.

The case is In re Kenneth Rosenau and can be found at this link.

Any approved consent is a cause for celebration in D.C. the case was docketed for investigation in 2013. (Mike Frisch)