In re Stephens

DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS

|1PER CURIAM.1

Respondent, Eddie L. Stephens, was formally charged with failing to keep his client informed and notarizing a forged affidavit before filing it into the court record, in violation of Rules 1.1(a), 1.3, 1.4, 3.3(a), 3.4(b), 4.1(a) and (b), and 8.4(a), (b), (c), and (d).

The facts developed at the hearing indicated that respondent was retained to defend the St. Michael’s Spiritual Temple of Faith of Baton Rouge in connection with a suit for non-payment of a loan. After filing an answer in the suit, respondent had very little contact with his client. Later in…