Across The Potomac

A Virginia attorney has been suspended for nine months as a result of a felony conviction for leaving the scene of an accident involving injury or death.

He is subject to an additional two years of suspension if he fails to comply with the requirements of the Lawyers Helping Lawyers program.

The attorney was convicted on his guilty plea  on April 19 of this year and was sentenced in June. Thus, the soup-to-nuts bar discipline process took about five months. 

Notably, a Washington, D.C. attorney was convicted of the same offense in Virginia in 2005 and the matter is now pending before the Court of Appeals with a recommendation for no suspension.

The case has now taken over eleven years to resolve.

The felon-at-issue has yet to serve a day of suspension.

Our prior coverage of the delay in the D.C. case is linked here and here.  (Mike Frisch)