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· 8/23/2016

Donald Welch v. Edmund Brown, Jr.

Citations

  • 834 F.3d 1041
  • 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 15444
  • 2016 WL 4437617

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • imposing a public reprimand on respondent with no prior disciplinary record when prohibited communication resulted in substantial harm; rejecting request to privately admonish respondent
  • imposing public reprimand on attorney without prior disciplinary history because prohibited communication resulted in substantial harm and rejecting request to privately admonish respondent
  • imposing a public reprimand on respondent with no prior disciplinary record for communicating with a represented party without opposing counsel’s consent
  • “We have consistently held that harm to a client or third party is an aggravating factor with regard to disciplinary violations.”
  • stating the attorney had a reputation as a competent attorney

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Kozinski, Graber, Christen

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