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Drago Campa (WSBA No. 23947, admitted 1994),
Los Angeles, California, was disbarred, effective
March 16, 2012, by order of the Washington State
Supreme Court imposing reciprocal discipline in
accordance with an order by the Supreme Court
of the State of California following a default hearing.
This discipline resulted from conduct in two
matters involving the unauthorized practice of
law, failure to protect a client’s interests, failure to
communicate, failure to account for client funds,
acts of moral turpitude, conversion of funds, misrepresentation
to a tribunal, filing a false declaration,
and failure to cooperate in a Bar Association
investigation. For more information, see the State
Bar of California’s Bar Journal (January 2012),
available at www.calbarjournal.com/january2012/
attorneydiscipline/disbarments.aspx#8.
Mr. Campa’s conduct violated California’s RPC
1-300(B), prohibiting a lawyer from practicing
law in a jurisdiction where to do so would be in
violation of regulations of the profession in that
jurisdiction; California’s RPC 3-700(D)(1), requiring
a lawyer whose employment was terminated
to promptly release to the client, at the request
of the client, all the client papers and property;
California’s RPC 4-100(B)(3), requiring a lawyer to
maintain complete records of all funds, securities,
and other properties of a client coming into the
possession of the lawyer or law firm and render
appropriate accounts to the client regarding them;
California’s RPC 4-100(B)(4), requiring a lawyer to
promptly pay or deliver, as requested by the client,
any funds, securities, or other properties in the possession
of the lawyer which the client is entitled to
receive; California’s Business and Professions Code
§ 6068(d), providing that it is the duty of a lawyer
to never seek to mislead a judge by an artifice or
false statement of fact or law; California’s Business
and Professions Code § 6068 (m), requiring a
lawyer to respond promptly to reasonable status
inquiries of clients and to keep clients reasonably
informed of significant developments in matters
with regard to which the lawyer has agreed to
provide legal services; California’s Business and
Professions Code § 6068(i), requiring a lawyer
to cooperate and participate in any disciplinary
investigation or proceeding pending against the
lawyer; and California’s Business and Professions
Code § 6106, prohibiting a lawyer from engaging
in conduct involving moral turpitude, dishonesty,
or corruption.
Joanne S. Abelson represented the Bar Association.
Mr. Campa represented himself. |