Practicing With Professionalism - South Carolina Bar Association

warned to communicate through attorneys, and engaged in other
misconduct.) (suspension, one year-one day); and
2. People v. McCray, 926 P.2d 578 (Colo. 1996). (Attorney, through
client, arranged to have client's wife sign documents without notice
to wife's attorney, and without advising wife she should contact her
own attorney before signing.) (public censure).
F. An attorney must adhere to truthfulness in dealings with persons other
than clients. Colo. RPC 4.1 :
1. People v. Rudman, 948 P.2d 1022 (Colo. 1997). (Attorney, who
acted as personal representative of an estate, made false statements
to ,beneficiary concerning bearer bonds which attorney had
converted to his own use and made misrepresentations to other
counsel and the beneficiary concerning stock certificates owned by
the decedent.) (suspension, three years);
2. People v. Newman, 925 P.2d 783 (Colo. 1996). (Attorney made
false statements to customer of corporation that employed him and
also represented himself as a practicing attorney when he was on
inactive status.) (public censure);
3. People v.' Robertson, 908 P.2d 96 (Colo. 1995). (Attorney
converted funds of client, a .convicted criminal defendant, and
misrepresented to a co-owner ofthe funds that he had invested the
money as instructed by the client. Attorney also forged signatures
and engaged in other misconduct.) (disbarment);
4. People v. Goldstein, 887 P.2d 634 (Colo. 1994). (Attorney made·
false statements concerning his handling of client matters to the
senior partners in his law firm, engaged in other misconduct, and
was convicted ofa felony offense offorgery ofa federal bankruptcy
court judge's signature.) (disbarment);
5. People v. Bertagnolli, 861 P.2d 717 (Colo. 1993). (In arbitratipn
proceedings in a personal injUry matter, attorney presented an
expert witness, a physician who within a week wrote to attorney
explaining a change in his medical opinion. Attorney did not
respond to the doctor and argued the doctor's original opinion
during closing arguments before the 'arbitration paneL) .. (public
censure).
Professionalism CLE (2004)