Board of Professional Responsibility, Wyoming State Bar v. Kara Crawford-Fink, WSB # 6-3966

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IN THE SUPREME COURT, STATE OF WYOMING 2022 WY 53 April Term, A.D. 2022 April 20, 2022 BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR, Petitioner, D-19-0011 v. KARA CRAWFORD-FINK, WSB # 6-3966, Respondent. ORDER REINSTATING ATTORNEY TO THE PRACTICE OF LAW [¶ 1] This matter came before the Court upon a Report and Recommendation for Reinstatement, filed herein March 25, 2022, by a hearing panel of the Board of Professional Responsibility for the Wyoming State Bar. By order entered December 4, 2019, this Court suspended Respondent from the practice of law for one year, with the period of suspension to begin December 13, 2019. Bd. of Pro. Resp., Wyoming State Bar v. Crawford-Fink, 2019 WY 119, 452 P.3d 1285 (Wyo. 2019). Respondent timely filed a petition for reinstatement. Pursuant to Rule 22(b)(6)(B) of the Wyoming Rules of Disciplinary Procedure, a stipulation for reinstatement was executed. Now, after a careful review of the Board of Professional Responsibility’s Report and Recommendation for Reinstatement and the file, this Court finds that the Report and Recommendation should be approved, confirmed and adopted by the Court; and that the Respondent Kara Crawford-Fink should be reinstated to the practice of law. It is, therefore, [¶ 2] ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that the Board of Professional Responsibility’s Report and Recommendation for Reinstatement, 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 the Respondent, Kara Crawford-Fink, be, and hereby is, reinstated to the practice of law in Wyoming, effective immediately; and it is further [¶ 4] ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 9(b) Wyoming Rules of Disciplinary Procedure, this Order Reinstating Attorney to the Practice of Law, along with the incorporated Report and Recommendation for Reinstatement, shall be published in the Wyoming Reporter and the Pacific Reporter; and it is further [¶ 5] ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall docket this Order Reinstating Attorney to the Practice of Law, along with the incorporated Report and Recommendation for Reinstatement, as a matter coming regularly before this Court as a public record; and it is further [¶ 6] ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court transmit a copy of this Order Reinstating Attorney to the Practice of Law to the members of the Board of Professional Responsibility and to the clerks of the appropriate courts of the State of Wyoming. [¶ 7] DATED this 20th day of April, 2022. BY THE COURT: /s/ KATE M. FOX Chief Justice

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