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Cite as In re Ryan, 19 DB Rptr 41 (2005)
EXHIBIT B
STIPULATION UPON REVIEW
Pursuant to BR 10.4(b), the Oregon State Bar, by and through Assistant
Disciplinary Counsel Martha M. Hicks, and the Accused, Elissa M. Ryan, by and
through her attorney, Susan D. Isaacs, stipulate that they find the trial panel opinion
acceptable and the discipline imposed appropriate. A copy of the trial panel opinion
in the above-captioned matter is attached hereto and by reference incorporated herein.
The parties further petition the court to review this matter without briefs and
argument.
EXECUTED this 21st day of December 2001.
OREGON STATE BAR
EXECUTED this 20th day of December 2001.
By: /s/ Martha M. Hicks
Martha M. Hicks
OSB No. 75167
Assistant Disciplinary Counsel
/s/ Susan D. Isaacs
Susan D. Isaacs
OSB No. 79277
OPINION OF THE TRIAL PANEL
Introduction
By its Formal Complaint of May 13, 1999, the Oregon State Bar (“Bar”)
alleges that Ellisa M. Ryan (“Accused”) violated the following standards of
professional conduct established by law and by the Bar:
DR 1-102(A)(3), which prohibits a lawyer from engaging in conduct
involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation;
DR 3-101(B), which prohibits a lawyer from practicing law where to
do so is in violation of Bar regulations;
DR 7-102(A)(5), which prohibits a lawyer from knowingly making a
false statement of law or fact in the course of the lawyer’s representation of
a client;
ORS 9.160, which prohibits a person from the practice of law unless the
person is an active member of the Bar; and
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