Lawyer Disciplinary Board v. Ronald D. Hassan

WALKER, Chief Justice:

Ronald D. Hassan is a lawyer who admittedly engaged in "value billing" and "block billing" to calculate the amounts owed to him by the Public Defender Services (PDS) for his court-appointed representation of criminal defendants. Mr. Hassan's billing practices resulted in impractical absurdities such as billing thirty or more hours on multiple days. He was charged with violating two separate provisions of the West Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct. 1 Following a hearing, the Hearing Panel Subcommittee (HPS) recommended that Mr. Hassan be suspended from the practice…