State Bar Grievance Administrator v. Estes

This case comes to us on appeal from the State Bar Grievance Board (hereafter "Board”). Appellant áttorney, Walter O. Estes, contends both that the facts elicited in hearing panel testimony are insufficient to support a finding of unprofessional conduct, and that, in any case, such conduct as the Board found appellant engaged in does not present grounds warranting disciplinary suspension from the practice of law. Thus the facts in this case are of essential importance.

I—FACTS

Appellant represented a client, Earl Harmon, who was involved in a rear-end accident in East Lansing on September 7,…