Legal Opinion

In Re the Disciplinary Proceeding Against Hawkins

Washington Supreme Court

Decided January 5, 1979No. C.D. 2430PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtUtter, J.

Mr. Kenneth C. Hawkins, the respondent attorney, was admitted to practice in this state in 1938. He appears before this court upon a unanimous recommendation of disbarment by the Disciplinary Board of the Washington State Bar Association. We concur with that recommendation and order that Mr. Hawkins be disbarred.

The charges which bring the respondent before this court arise from his actions during the probate of the estate of George L. Bock. The respondent drafted a will in 1962 for Mr. Bock in which the testator left his entire estate to Father Flanagan's Boys' Home (Boys' Town) in Omaha,…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. In Re RuffaloSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. In Re the Disciplinary Proceeding Against KumberaWashington Supreme Court · 1979
  3. In Re the Disciplinary Proceeding Against GreinerWashington Supreme Court · 1963
  4. In Re the Disciplinary Proceeding Against HawkinsWashington Supreme Court · 1972
  5. In re the Disciplinary Proceeding against HawkinsWashington Supreme Court · 1970

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. In re the Disciplinary Proceeding Against AnschellWashington Supreme Court · 2000
  2. In Re RoselliniWashington Supreme Court · 1982
  3. Stephen Kerr Eugster v. Washington State Bar AssociationCourt of Appeals of Washington · 2017
  4. In Re the Disciplinary Proceeding Against RessaWashington Supreme Court · 1980
  5. In re the Disciplinary Proceeding against RoselliniWashington Supreme Court · 1982

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