Lawyer Disciplinary Board v. Patrick Doheny

FILED June 10, 2022 released at 3:00 p.m. EDYTHE NASH GAISER, CLERK Walker, J., concurring: SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA I agree with our decision to reject the Hearing Panel Subcommittee’s (HPS) recommendation and write separately to emphasize that this Court’s authority in lawyer disciplinary matters is broad and that we established the West Virginia Office of Disciplinary Counsel to zealously prosecute attorney misconduct. 1 Only after such prosecution can we efficiently perform our role as “the final arbiter of legal ethics problems and . . . make the ultimate decisions about…