Summary 2013 WY 148

Summary of Order December 4, 2013

Case Name: BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WYOMING STATE BAR v. WILLIAM D. BAGLEY, WSB#4-0956

Docket Number: D-13-0007

URL: http://www.courts.state.wy.us/Opinions.aspx

Order Suspending Attorney from the Practice of Law

Date of Order: December 4, 2013

[¶1] This matter came before the Court upon a “Report and Recommendation for Suspension,” filed herein October 29, 2013, by the Board of Professional Responsibility for the Wyoming State Bar. After a careful review of the Board of Professional Responsibility’s Report and Recommendation for Suspension, Respondent’s “Appeal; Response to Report and Recommendation; Appeal and Request that the Court Calendar the Matter for Briefs and Argument Pursuant to Section 21(c)(iv) of the Disciplinary Code,” and the file, this Court first finds that Respondent’s appeal and request for briefing and argument should be denied. Pursuant to Section 21(c)(i), “[a] response shall state explicit reasons for the exceptions to the report together with a brief prepared in accordance with Rule 7.01, W.R.A.P.” The response filed herein does not comply with subsection (c)(i), so this Court finds that the appeal and request for briefing and argument should be denied.

[¶2] Second, this Court finds that the Report and Recommendation for Suspension should be approved, confirmed and adopted by the Court; and that the Respondent, William D. Bagley, should be suspended from the practice of law for a period of ninety (90) days. It is, therefore,

[¶3] ORDERED that Respondent’s Appeal and Request that the Court Calendar the Matter for Briefs and Argument Pursuant to Section 21(c)(iv) of the Disciplinary Code be, and hereby is, denied; and it is further

[¶4] ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that the Board of Professional Responsibility’s Report and Recommendation for Suspension, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein, shall be, and the same hereby is, approved, confirmed, and adopted by this Court; and it is further

[¶5] ADJUDGED AND ORDERED that, as a result of the conduct set forth in the Report and Recommendation for Suspension, Respondent William D. Bagley shall be, and hereby is, suspended from the practice of law for a period of ninety (90) days, beginning December 16, 2013; and it is further

[¶6] ORDERED that Respondent shall comply with Section 22 of the Disciplinary Code for the Wyoming State Bar. That Section governs the duties of disbarred and suspended attorneys; and it is further

[¶7] ORDERED that, pursuant to Section 26 of the Disciplinary Code for the Wyoming State Bar, William D. Bagley shall reimburse the Wyoming State Bar the amount of $5,831.92, representing the costs incurred in handling this matter, as well as pay an administrative fee of $500.00, by paying the total amount of $6,381.92 to the Clerk of the Board of Professional Responsibility on or before April 1, 2014; and it is further

[¶8] ORDERED that, pursuant to Section 4(a)(iv) of the Disciplinary Code for the Wyoming State Bar, this Order Suspending Attorney from the Practice of Law, along with the incorporated Report and Recommendation for Suspension, shall be published in the Wyoming Reporter and the Pacific Reporter; and it is further

[¶9] ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall docket this Order Suspending Attorney from the Practice of Law, along with the Report and Recommendation for Suspension, as a matter coming regularly before this Court as a public record; and it is further

[¶10] ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court cause a copy of the Order Suspending Attorney from the Practice of Law to be served upon Respondent William D. Bagley.


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