Discipline Notice - Jerry K. Brown

License Number: 14946
Member Name: Jerry K. Brown
Discipline Detail
Action: Reprimand
Effective Date: 7/1/2005
RPC:
Discipline Notice:
Description: Jerry K. Brown (WSBA No. 14946, admitted 1985), of McMinnville, OR, was ordered to receive a reprimand effective July 1, 2005, by order of the Washington State Supreme Court imposing reciprocal discipline based on an order of the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon approving a stipulation for discipline. This discipline was based on his conduct in 1999 through 2003 involving the failure to act with reasonable diligence in representing the personal representative of an estate.

Commencing in May 1998, Mr. Brown represented the personal representative in the probate of an estate. Between March 1999 and February 2001, Mr. Brown took no substantial action to administer or close the estate. Between February 2001 and March 2003, when he terminated the representation, Mr. Brown engaged in a course of neglectful conduct that included the following: failing to timely provide sufficient information to the estate’s accountant; mailing documents to the personal representative at an address Mr. Brown knew was not current; failing to promptly effect the transfer of property in another state or initiate an ancillary probate; misplacing the estate’s tax refund checks; and failing to close the estate.

Mr. Brown’s conduct violated Oregon DR 6-101(B), prohibiting a lawyer from neglecting a legal matter entrusted to him or her.

Felice P. Congalton represented the Bar Association. Mr. Brown did not appear in the proceeding either personally or through counsel.


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