In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings Against Gilbert

¶ 1. We review the referee's recommendation that Attorney William J. Gilbert's license to practice law in Wisconsin be suspended for six months for professional misconduct. That misconduct consists of failing to act with reasonable diligence and promptness in representing a client, failing to keep a client reasonably informed about the status of a matter, failing to hold property of a client or property in which both the lawyer and client claim an interest in trust separate from the lawyer's own property until there is an accounting and a severing of their interests, failing to surrender…