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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowTwo Indiana attorneys have been suspended from the practice of law for failing to cooperate with the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission’s investigation into grievances against them.
Attorney Ronald Wright of Carmel-based Wright & Associates PC has been immediately suspended after failing to submit written responses to pending allegations of professional misconduct against him.
Public documents did not provide further details about the allegations against him. Wright did not immediately respond to The Indiana Lawyer’s request for comment.
Wright’s suspension will continue until the disciplinary commission’s executive director certifies to the court that he has fully cooperated with the investigation, or until further order of the court.
Wright must fulfill the duties of a suspended attorney, which includes reimbursing the commission $530 for the costs of his proceeding.
Attorney Allison Martinez Wheeler has also been immediately suspended for failing to cooperate with the commission’s investigation of misconduct allegations against her.
No public documents provided any further details about those allegations. Contact information for Wheeler could not immediately be found.
According to online business records, Wheeler was an attorney for Wheeler Law Firm LLC in Indianapolis. Records at the Indiana Secretary of State’s Office show the limited liability corporation has been dissolved.
Wheeler previously was suspended for continuing legal education noncompliance and nonpayment of disciplinary costs. She must fulfill the continuing duties of a suspended attorney, which includes reimbursing the commission $541 for the costs of her proceedings.
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OK, how is it the disciplinary commission can reach a decision on suspending these attorneys, but they might need a mediator to decide on the complaints involving our state’s Attorney General? Rokita Rules? Not a good look for the Commission and, certainly, not for the Indiana Supreme Court.
I think the suspension order comes from the Supreme Court. And these suspensions do not go to the mertis; the attorneys are suspended for failing to comply with the procedural rules. Once they do so, if they do so, they would presumably be reinstated until the Commission and the Court reach the merits.
As for Rokita, I think the mediator is to allow the Supreme Court a face saving way out of the mess. As good Republicans, they don’t want to be seen as taking down a Republican state office holder. And Rokita will not back down. Unless the Disciplinary Commission is instructed by the Court to throw in the towel, the mediation will be a fiasco, and the Court will be forced to accept its responsibility of policing the bar and disciplining those who break the rules. Two Justices are already in favor of doing so; they need one more.
but I’m not a lawyer, and never played one in a TV commercial (but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn). So, in the near-immortal words of Dennis Miller (another good Republican), that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong…
Of course Rokita can afford to continue the fight at our expense and look at all of the free publicity he is receiving from the ongoing fight showing his base he is just like his hero, Donald.
Has Rokita done anything for the citizens of Indiana except chase windmills?