Office of Lawyer Regulation v. Gorokhovsky

¶ 1 Attorney Vladimir M. Gorokhovsky has appealed from the referee's findings of fact and conclusions of law entered after a public hearing following the filing of the Office of Lawyer Regulation's (OLR) complaint on October 15, 2010. The OLR alleged, and the referee concluded, that Attorney Gorokhovsky had committed the following eight acts of professional misconduct:

Count 1: Attorney Gorokhovsky failed to provide competent representation to a client in violation of *556SCR 20:1.11 by advising a client that the client's chosen litigation strategy would be unlikely to succeed despite having never…