Matter of Scavone

This matter comes to us on the recommendation of the Disciplinary Review Board (DRB) that the license to practice law of respondent, Daniel J. Scavone, be revoked. When respondent applied for admission to the bar, he misrepresented to the Committee on Character (Committee) in an answered questionnaire that he had not been “disciplined, reprimanded, suspended, expelled or asked to resign from any educational institution.”

Apparently, the Committee staff had misplaced the law school certificate known as Form #3 that is part of the application for admission to the bar. The law school, St. Louis…