Louisiana State Bar Ass'n v. Dumaine

[1] This attorney disciplinary proceeding calls upon us to set forth precepts for determining whether a lawyer who has committed serious ethical violations should be placed on probation and allowed to continue to practice because his infractions were related to alcoholism, and to provide guidelines for establishing the terms and conditions of this type of probation. The respondent attorney, Arthur Dumaine, was convicted of illegal use of a weapon, La.R.S. 14:94, given a suspended sentence of one year in jail, and placed on supervised probation conditioned upon alcohol abuse treatment,…