Bar Ass'n of Balto. City v. Dearing

ORDER OF COURT After fully and carefully reviewing the entire record in this disciplinary proceeding, which, among other documents, includes: the Bar Association’s charges of professional misconduct; a transcript of the proceedings before the hearing panel to which the charges were transmitted (Maryland Rule BV3 b); the hearing panel’s findings of fact, together with its recommendation that: (i) the evidence is not of “sufficient character to support the charges that Dearing should have known he was not competent to handle, or failed to prepare adequately, certain legal matters” (DR6-101(A)(1) and (2)), (ii) the evidence does support a finding that the respondent neglected a number of legal matters entrusted to him (DR 6-101(A)(3), and (iii) that the respondent be suspended from the practice of law for a period of one year; the Bar Association’s exceptions to the panel’s recommendation that there was no violation shown of DR 6-101(A)(l) and (2), and to the recommended length of the suspension; and the respondent’s answer to those exceptions, it is thereupon this 24th day of February, 1975, ORDERED, by the Court of Appeals of Maryland, that the findings of fact, as well as the application of those facts to the Canons of Professional Ethics, as recommended by the hearing panel, with the exception of the suggested sanction to be imposed, are hereby adopted by this Court as its own; and it is further ORDERED, that Tucker Russell Dearing be, and he is hereby, suspended from the practice of law in this State for a period of two years. This suspension, however, is subject specifically to the right of the respondent under Rule BV9 to seek a modification or termination