BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR, V. JEFFERY C. METLER

BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR, V. JEFFERY C. METLER
2012 WY 26
Case Number: D-12-0003
Decided: 02/23/2012

OCTOBER TERM, A.D. 2011

BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR, Petitioner

v.

JEFFERY C. METLER, Respondent

[¶1] This matter came before the Court upon a “Report and Recommendation for Public Censure,” filed herein January 30, 2012 by the Board of Professional Responsibility for the Wyoming State Bar. The Court, after a careful review of the Board of Professional Responsibility’s Report and Recommendation and the file, finds that the Report and Recommendation should be approved, confirmed and adopted by the Court, and that Respondent Jeffery C. Metler should be publicly censured for his conduct, which is described in the attached Report and Recommendation. It is, therefore,

[¶2] ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that the Board of Professional Responsibility’s Report and Recommendation for Public Censure, 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

[¶3] ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that Jeffery C. Metler shall receive a public censure for his conduct, and he shall be publicly censured in a manner consistent with the recommended censure contained in the Report and Recommendation for Public; and it is further

[¶4] ORDERED that, pursuant to Section 26 of the Disciplinary Code for the Wyoming State Bar, Mr. Metler shall reimburse the Wyoming State Bar the amount of $50.00, representing the administrative costs incurred in handling this matter, as well as pay the administrative fee of $500.00. Mr. Metler shall pay the total amount of $550.00 to the Clerk of the Board of Professional Responsibility on or before March 23, 2012; and it is further

[¶5] ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall docket this Order of Public Censure, along with the incorporated Report and Recommendation for Public Censure, as a matter coming regularly before this Court as a public record; and it is further

[¶6] ORDERED that, pursuant to Section 4(c) of the Disciplinary Code for the Wyoming State Bar, this Order of Public Censure, along with the incorporated Report and Recommendation for Public Censure, shall be published in the Wyoming Reporter and the Pacific Reporter; and it is further

[¶7] ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court cause a copy of the Order of Public Censure to be served upon Respondent Jeffery C. Metler.

[¶8] DATED this 23 day of February, 2012.

BY THE COURT:

/s/

MARILYN S. KITE

Chief Justice