Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Aug. 30, 2014
Bar disciplines lawyer for hit-and-run while texting
The bar court ruled Harold McDougall must be publicly reproved not solely for the misdemeanor conviction but for surrounding circumstances that reflect poorly on his judgment and on the profession.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
The State Bar has disciplined a lawyer convicted of misdemeanor hit-and-run over a traffic collision caused by his reading a text message.
In a decision issued last week, the review department of the State Bar Court said it was ordering a public reproval of Harold Augustus McDougall IV not merely for the minor conviction but for the conviction "taken together with the facts and circumstanc...
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