In re Brammer, Jr. ( 2021 )

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS
No. 20-BG-552
IN RE WILLIAM H. BRAMMER, JR., RESPONDENT.
A Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals
(Bar Registration No. 478206)
On Report and Recommendation of the Board on Professional
Responsibility Ad Hoc Hearing Committee
Approving Petition for Negotiated Discipline
(DDN 174-12)
(Decided: January 7, 2021)
Before MCLEESE and DEAHL, Associate Judges, and STEADMAN, Senior Judge.
PER CURIAM: This decision is non-precedential. Please refer to D.C. Bar R.
XI, § 12.1(d) regarding the appropriate citation of this opinion.
In this disciplinary matter, the Ad Hoc Hearing Committee (the Committee)
recommends approval of a petition for negotiated attorney discipline. See D.C. Bar
R. XI, § 12.1(c). The petition is based on Respondent’s voluntary
acknowledgment that Respondent failed to provide his client competent
representation.
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Respondent acknowledged that he failed to (1) provide competent
representation of his client, (2) act with reasonable promptness, and (3) keep his
client reasonably informed about the status of the matter. As a result, Respondent
violated D.C. Rules of Professional Conduct 1.1(a), 1.3(c), and 1.4(a). The
proposed discipline is a thirty-day suspension, stayed upon the successful
completion of a one-year period of probation during which Respondent will not
engage in any ethical misconduct, and conditioned upon Respondent making
restitution in the amount of $5,000 to his former client within one year of the
approval of his petition for negotiated discipline.
Having reviewed the Committee’s recommendation in accordance with our
procedures in uncontested disciplinary cases, see D.C. Bar R. XI, § 12.1(d), we
agree this case is appropriate for negotiated discipline and the proposed disposition
is not unduly lenient or inconsistent with dispositions imposed for comparable
professional misconduct. Accordingly, it is
ORDERED that Respondent William H. Brammer, Jr. is hereby suspended
from the practice of law in the District of Columbia for thirty days, stayed in lieu
of a one-year period of probation during which time Respondent will not engage in
any ethical misconduct and shall pay restitution in the amount of $5,000 to his
former client.
So ordered.