In Re Wamsley

DISCIPLINARY ACTION

Respondent Vaughn A. Wamsley’s advertisement for his legal practice, promi nent on the back cover of the 1997 Indianapolis telephone directory, proclaimed, “Best Possible Settlement ... Least Amount of Time.” That statement and others included in the advertisement represented misleading, deceptive, self-laudatory, and unfair claims and thus violated the Rules of Professional Conduct for Attorneys at Law. For that, we find today that the respondent should be publicly admonished.

This case commenced with the Disciplinary Commission’s filing of a Verified Complaint for…