In Re Disciplinary Proceedings Against Des Jardins

Attorney disciplinary proceeding; attorney's license suspended.

We review the recommendation of the referee that the license of Attorney Jeffrey C. Des Jardins to practice law in Wisconsin be suspended for three years for professional misconduct consisting of his failure to negotiate a settlement or reopen a client's action for over two years, his failure to return telephone cedis from his clients for the same period of time, his failure to inform them of the dismissed of their action and his notifying them of a fabricated trial date and its equally fabricated postponement. The referee…