In re Jordan

Supreme Court Rule 772 permits an attorney to be placed on probationary status when the lawyer has committed an act of professional misconduct occasioned by a disability such as substance abuse or mental illness. (134 Ill. 2d R. 772.) In the present case, we are asked to decide whether the respondent, an attorney who suffers from no proven disability, should nevertheless receive probation for conduct that violated the Code of Professional Responsibility (107 Ill. 2d R. 1 — 101 et seq. (now replaced by the Rules of Professional Conduct, 134 Ill. 2d R. 1.1 et seq. (effective August 1, 1990))).…