In re An Anonymous Member of the South Carolina Bar

ORDER

PRIVATE REPRIMAND

In this attorney disciplinary matter, respondent has been charged with neglecting a legal matter entrusted to him in violation of DR 6-101(A)(3) and publicly disclosing the existence of a pending grievance procedure in violation of the confidentiality requirement of Rule of Disciplinary Procedure, Paragraph 20. The Panel and the Executive Committee recommended a private reprimand. We agree, and issue this private reprimand.

BACKGROUND

Respondent undertook the representation of a couple who sought to have the wife’s natural born child adopted by the stepfather. The clients…