In Re: Janice Shelburne Haagensen, Esq., An Attorney At Law

REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON ATTORNEY DISCIPLINE BEFORE: Fisher, Chairperson, and Ambro and Hardiman, Members, being the Judges constituting the Standing Committee on Attorney Discipline of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit *fn1

As required under Rule 10.3 of the Rules of Attorney Discipline Enforcement (“R.A.D.E.”), the Standing Committee on Attorney Discipline (the “Standing Committee” or “Committee”) has prepared the instant Report and Recommendation setting forth its findings of fact and recommending that Janice Haagensen, Esquire (“Ms. Haagensen”) be disciplined by this Court for the reasons discussed below. In the first part of this Report and Recommendation, the Committee will outline the procedural history in the above-captioned matters. In part two, the Committee will address the reciprocal discipline proceeding docketed in C.A. Misc. No. 10-8013 and recommend that the Court impose a reciprocal suspension of one year and one day upon Ms. Haagensen. In part three, the Committee will address the original discipline proceeding docketed in C.A. Misc. No. 10-8046 which arose from a referral from the merits panel in C.A. No. 09-1957. With respect to the conduct which is the subject of C.A. Misc. No. 10-8046, the Committee recommends that Ms. Haagensen be publicly reprimanded for conduct unbecoming a member of the bar of this Court. See R.A.D.E. 2.4.

Part I: Procedural History