BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR v. KEN M. MCLAUGHLIN

BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR v. KEN M. MCLAUGHLIN
2006 WY 67
136 P.3d 158
Case Number: D-05-3
Decided: 05/31/2006

April Term, A.D. 2006

 

 

BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR, Petitioner,

 

 

v.

 

 

KEN M. McLAUGHLIN, Respondent.

 

 

 

This matter came before the Court upon a "Report and Recommendation to the Wyoming Supreme Court," filed herein May 16, 2006, by the Board of Professional Responsibility for the Wyoming State Bar.  After a careful review of the Board of Professional Responsibility's Report and Recommendation, the materials attached thereto, the Respondent's Section 16 Affidavit, the Affidavit of Costs and Expenses, and the remainder of the file, this Court finds that the Report and Recommendation should be approved, confirmed and adopted by the Court; and that the Respondent, Ken M. McLaughlin, should be suspended form the practice of law for a period of one year, retroactive to September 21, 2005.  It is, therefore,

 

 

ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that the Board of Professional Responsibility's Report and Recommendation to the Wyoming Supreme Court, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein, shall be, and the same hereby is, approved, confirmed, and adopted by this Court; and it is further

 

 

ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that, as a result of the conduct set forth in the Report and Recommendation, Respondent Ken M. McLaughlin shall be, and hereby is, suspended from the practice of law for a period of one year, with that period of suspension beginning on September 21, 2005; and it is further

 

 

ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 26 of the Disciplinary Code for the Wyoming State Bar, Ken M. McLaughlin shall reimburse the Wyoming State Bar the amount of $101.13, representing the costs incurred in handling this matter, as well as pay an administrative fee of $1,000.00, by paying the amount of $1,101.13 to the Clerk of the Board of Professional Responsibility, on or before September 1, 2006; and it is further

 

 

ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 4(c) of the Disciplinary Code for the Wyoming State Bar, this Order Suspending Attorney from the Practice of Law, along with the incorporated Report and Recommendation, shall be published in the Wyoming Reporter and the Pacific Reporter; and it is further

 

 

ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall docket this Order Suspending Attorney from the Practice of Law, along with the Report and Recommendation, as a matter coming regularly before this Court as a public record; and it is further

 

 

ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court transmit a copy of this Order Suspending Attorney from the Practice of Law to the members of the Board of Professional Responsibility, and the clerks of the appropriate courts of the State ofWyoming.

 

 

DATED this 30th day of May, 2006.

 

 

                                                                        BY THE COURT:

                                                                        /s/ William U. Hill

                                                                        WILLIAM U. HILL

                                                                        Chief Justice