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In re Childers

Attorney who failed to respond to discovery requests and motions in two personal injury cases is suspended for six months backdated to December 1, 1999.

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This disciplinary matter is before the Court on Respondent Dennis S. Childers’ Petition for Voluntary Discipline, filed pursuant to Bar Rule 4-227 b prior to the issuance of Formal Complaints, in which Childers seeks to dispose of two matters pending against him. With respect to both grievances, Childers admits he violated Standards 44 lawyer shall not without just cause to the detriment of his client in effect wilfully abandon or disregard a legal matter entrusted to him and 68 failure to respond to disciplinary board authorities of Bar Rule 4-102 d. Standard 44 may be punished by disbarment and Standard 68 by public reprimand. Childers proposes that he receive a six-month suspension and, since he has been under an interim suspension since December 1, 1999, requests that the Court backdate his suspension from that time. The State Bar has no objection to Childers’ petition.

In April 1998, Childers agreed to represent a client and her daughter in a lawsuit against General Motors Acceptance Corporation “GMAC” and filed the action on December 28, 1998. Childers failed to respond to GMAC’s discovery requests despite repeated requests to do so and on April 6, 1999, GMAC filed a motion to dismiss for failure to respond. The clients were unaware of the motion and did not respond to it. GMAC sent a copy of the motion to Childers’ clients, who obtained additional time to retain new counsel and respond to the motion, but the trial court subsequently granted the motion to dismiss.

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