In Re Gorecki

The respondent in this attorney discipline case, Mary Elizabeth Górecki, concedes that she violated the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct when she left three messages on a telephone answering machine which falsely indicated that the president of the Kane County board could be bribed into providing a county job. At issue in this case is the appropriate sanction to impose for this misconduct. For the reasons that follow, we suspend respondent’s license to practice law for a period of four months.

BACKGROUND

In February 2001, the Administrator of the Illinois Attorney Registration and…