In Re Atwater

In this attorney disciplinary action, we suspend Michael E. Atwater (Respondent) from the practice of law for six months and order him to pay the costs of these disciplinary proceedings due to Respondent’s repeated failure to respond to the Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC) in the investigation of five matters.

I. FACTS

Respondent was licensed to practice law in 1995. ODC investigated five complaints involving Respondent that were filed from 2004 to 2006. A hearing was held on September 13, 2007, at which Respondent appeared pro se. A Hearing Panel of the Commission on Lawyer Conduct found…