Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings Against Kennedy

Attorney disciplinary proceeding; license suspended. On July 2, 1980, the Board of Attorneys Professional Responsibility filed with the court a complaint alleging that Basil G. Kennedy, an attorney licensed to practice law in Wisconsin since 1948, and who resides and maintains his practice in Mellen, was guilty of gross neglect of a legal matter entrusted to him in violation of SCR 20.32(3) as a result of his conduct in a personal injury action brought against his client in 1969. In that action counsel for the plaintiff forwarded to Kennedy a stipulation and order for dismissal of the action,…