High court to weigh in on 3 attorney discipline cases

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to issue orders in three disciplinary cases Tuesday.

One of them involves Westby attorney Gregory Lunde, who faces a 60-day suspension for his alleged mishandling of money owed to the heirs of a woman’s estate. The Office of Lawyer Regulation filed its complaint last year alleging five counts of misconduct.

The second case involves Michael Bishop, a Milwaukee attorney. The OLR is asking for the justices to suspend Bishop’s license for 60 days over five counts of alleged misconduct for mishandling money belonging to clients and third parties. The complaint the OLR filed in February stems from an overdraft of Bishop’s trust account dating to August 2013.

The Supreme Court will also weigh in on the case of an attorney who was disbarred by the Minnesota Supreme Court in 2013 for mishandling thousands of dollars of client money.

The OLR alleged in a complaint filed in June that Harvey Jones failed to report to the OLR that he had been disbarred as required by this state’s rules. The OLR is asking for the court to impose reciprocal discipline on Jones, who has been admitted to practice law in Wisconsin since 1984.

His Wisconsin license has been suspended since October 2011 for failing to pay dues and failure to certify his trust account.