Kentucky Bar Ass'n v. Carrithers

*291 OPINION AND ORDER

Respondent, Dennis Carrithers, (# 10627) of Louisville, Kentucky, was admitted to the practice of law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1976. In June 1999, the Inquiry Commission issued a three-count charge against Respondent for violations of: (I) SCR 3.130(1.3), failure to act with reasonable promptness in his representation of a client. (II) SCR 3.130(1.4), failure to keep his client reasonably informed about the status of a matter; and (III) SCR 3.130(1.16(d)) (Count III was dropped by the KBA at the Trial Commissioner level).

An evidentiary hearing was held on December…