Discipline Notice - Lawrence L. Taylor

License Number: 20595
Member Name: Lawrence L. Taylor
Discipline Detail
Action: Reprimand
Effective Date: 11/8/2010
RPC:
Discipline Notice:
Description: Lawrence L. Taylor (WSBA No. 20595, admitted 1991), of Portland, Oregon, received a reprimand on November 8, 2010, by order of the Washington State Supreme Court imposing reciprocal discipline in accordance with an order of the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon. This discipline is based on conduct in which Mr. Taylor’s non-lawyer investigator improperly obtained an opposing party’s school records to which his client had previously been denied access. For more information, see the Oregon State Bar Bulletin (November 2009) at www.osbar.org/publications/bulletin/09nov/baractions.html. Lawrence L. Taylor is to be distinguished from F. Lawrence Taylor Jr., of Renton, and Lawrence E. Taylor, of Long Beach.

Mr. Taylor’s conduct violated Oregon’s RPC 5.3(a), requiring a lawyer having direct supervisory authority over a nonlawyer to make reasonable efforts to ensure that the person’s conduct is compatible with the professional obligations of the lawyer; Oregon’s RPC 5.3(b) requiring a lawyer to be responsible for the conduct of such a person that would be a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct if engaged in by a lawyer if the lawyer orders or ratifies the conduct involved or the lawyer has direct supervisory authority over the person and knows of the conduct at a time when its consequences can be avoided or mitigated but fails to take reasonable remedial action; and Oregon’s RPC 8.4(a)(4), prohibiting a lawyer from engaging in conduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice.

Joanne S. Abelson represented the Bar Association. Mr. Taylor represented himself.


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