A unanimous Georgia Supreme Court has accepted a special master’s recommendation that state House Speaker David Ralston receive a public reprimand to resolve a bar grievance filed by two former clients, a married couple, over his handling of their case.
Ralston, a Blue Ridge attorney, was accused of violating bar rules prohibiting a lawyer from loaning money to a client while a case was pending and of using money from his trust account to do so. According to bar filings, Ralston loaned Paul and Shanda Chernak a total of $22,000 in 2010 and 2011, using funds from an unrelated fee he had deposited in his trust account but had not disbursed.
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