In re the Disciplinary Proceeding Against Del Carmen Rodriguez

¶1 Rosaura Del Carmen Rodriguez appeals the Washington State Bar Association’s (WSBA) recommendation that she be disbarred for submitting documents with forged signatures to a tribunal and later denying it under oath to avoid discipline. Although the presumptive sanction for this misconduct is disbarment, the hearing officer recommended a two-year suspension based largely on Rodriguez’s relative inexperience in the practice of law. The WSBA Disciplinary Board (Board) increased the recommended sanction to disbarment.

¶2 Rodriguez claims three of the hearing officer’s findings were not supported…