New London attorney faces additional discipline

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A New London attorney suspended for five months in May 2011 is now facing discipline for allegedly not disclosing to the court or his clients that he could not practice law.

Eric Crandall was suspended for failing to return unearned fees, failing to hold money in a trust account and not cooperating with an Office of Lawyer Regulation investigation. During that time he was listed as the attorney on four cases pending in front of the Court of Appeals, according to a complaint filed by the OLR on Oct. 23.

He also did not respond to multiple requests from the OLR for information, and only responded when the office filed a request to have the Supreme Court issue an order to have him explain why his license should not be suspended, according to the complaint.

The OLR is asking the court to publicly reprimand Crandall.

Crandall graduated from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minn., in 1988. Reached Monday, Crandall declined to comment.

He was also suspended from practicing law for three months in 2006 as reciprocal discipline for a Minnesota case. He was publicly reprimanded in 2008 for advancing a frivolous claim and was also suspended for 30 days that same year.