Legal Opinion
Discipline of Donald Gilbert
Utah Supreme Court
Decided July 20, 2016No. Case No. 20150628PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Justice Pearce,
opinion of the Court:
1 Donald D. Gilbert, Jr. appeals the district court's order concluding that he violated the Utah Rules of Professional Conduct and disbarring him from the practice of law, We affirm the district court's order and conclude that disbarment is an appropriate sanction.
BACKGROUND
2 Donald D. Gilbert, Jr. represented the Utah Down Syndrome Association (the Association) and a number of its founders in a dispute with the Utah Down Syndrome Foundation (the Foundation). The Foundation is a Utah nonprofit corporation that operates, in part, through fourteen county…
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