Brookman v. State Bar

Opinion

THE COURT. *

The Review Department of the State Bar of California has recommended that petitioner be suspended from law practice for five years, which term would be stayed during seven years of supervised probation. Recommended conditions of probation include ninety days’ actual suspension, restitution to two former clients and to the State Bar Client Security Fund (to cover amounts paid out to a third former client), and notification of petitioner’s suspension to his clients (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 955(a), (c)).

Petitioner generally consents to the discipline as “appropriate and…