In re Pagano

This disciplinary matter is before the Court on the petition for voluntary discipline filed by Nicholas Pagano (State Bar No. 558935) prior to the issuance of a formal complaint. Pagano seeks a Review Panel reprimand for conduct involving the abandonment of one client’s matter and the State Bar recommends that the Court accept Pagano’s petition.

With regard to this matter, Pagano, who has been a member of the State Bar since 1986, admits that in 2008 a client hired him to represent her in a personal injury action; that he filed suit on the client’s behalf in July 2008; that although he did…