In Re Complaint as to the Conduct of Jones

In this lawyer disciplinary proceeding, the accused agreed to let Delores McElmurry, a nonlawyer, use his name as lawyer on papers she filed in her dissolution processing operation. The issues raised by the bar’s appeal from the trial panel’s decision are whether the accused acted with a culpable mental state and, if so, whether the previously imposed sanction should be increased.

The trial panel found that in the course of his participation with McElmurry in her unauthorized practice of law, the accused violated several disciplinary rules (DRs). It recommended two years unsupervised probation…