Legal Opinion
In the Disciplinary Matter Involving Buckalew
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided February 27, 1987No. S-1077PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BURKE, Justice.
Robert J. Buckalew, the respondent in this proceeding, and the Alaska Bar Association’s Discipline Counsel (Discipline Counsel) entered into a stipulation for discipline by consent. The Bar’s Board of Governors, sitting as its Disciplinary Board (Board), accepted the stipulation and recommended that this court adopt it. Were we to do so, Buckalew would be suspended from the practice of law for five years. We now reject the Board’s recommendation.
I. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW
In 1983, Buckalew represented Whittier Fuel and Marine Corporation in a damage action against the City…
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