A lawyer whose staff lost track of a personal injury suit for seven years, and who ignored the client’s inquiries, deserves a three-month suspension, say ethics officials.
Although a reprimand or censure is the usual discipline for failure to supervise nonlawyer staff, Wayne Powell’s lengthy inaction and his prior history of ethics breaches warrants sterner treatment, the Disciplinary Review Board said Wednesday in a unanimous opinion.
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