Pomtree v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

Tom Glaze, Justice.

We take jurisdiction of this appeal, because it involves this court’s power to regulate the practice of law. Ark. Sup. Ct. R. 1-2(a) (5). Specifically, appellant Nealon Pomtree questions the trial court’s imposition of Rule 11 sanctions for his having filed suit in Pulaski County Circuit Court against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (State Farm); the Pulaski County Circuit Court found that Pomtree improperly attempted to collaterally attack an attorney’s lien issue which was already pending in the Cleburne County Circuit Court. That pending suit in Cleburne…