In re Disciplinary Proceedings Against Webster

Attorney disciplinary proceeding; attorney publicly reprimanded.

We review the recommendation of the referee that Attorney Leslie J. Webster be publicly reprimanded for professional misconduct consisting of his undertaking the representation of a man in a divorce action at a time when he had an undisclosed personal and conflicting interest in the matter by virtue of his intimate relationship with the man's wife. We determine that a public reprimand is appropriate discipline for that misconduct.

Attorney Webster was admitted to practice law in Wisconsin in 1979 and practices in Ellsworth and has…