Rodgers v. State Bar

Opinion

THE COURT. *

We review the recommendation of the Review Department of the State Bar Court (hereafter the department) that petitioner Bobby D. Rodgers (hereafter Rodgers) be disbarred from the practice of law in California. After considering the record we conclude that we should adopt the department’s findings of fact and conclusions of law, but that we should order, in place of disbarment, five years’ suspension, stayed on condition of probation with two years’ actual suspension.

In September 1981 attorney George Brekke filed a complaint against Rodgers with the State Bar. The complaint…