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High court to issue decisions in 3 lawyer-discipline cases

By: Erika Strebel, [email protected]//February 15, 2017//

High court to issue decisions in 3 lawyer-discipline cases

By: Erika Strebel, [email protected]//February 15, 2017//

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday will decide whether to discipline three lawyers.

The court is scheduled to decide the case of the former Milwaukee immigration attorney Godfrey Muwonge, who was charged in 2007 with 43 counts of misconduct. The court suspended his license indefinitely in 2008 because of medical conditions he brought up after disciplinary proceedings had started against him. The justices also halted the disciplinary case against him but revived it in July after reinstating his license.

The justices are also scheduled to release a decision in the case of David Silberman, a Mequon attorney who was disbarred in Illinois last year for transferring more than $460,000 worth of real estate escrow money from his trust account into the operating account of a business he owned while he was an attorney for a title-insurance company in Illinois.

He recently reached a stipulation with the Office of Lawyer Regulation, which filed a complaint last year asking the justices to impose reciprocal discipline on Silberman for the Illinois misconduct.

The state Supreme Court will also weigh in on the case of Thad Gegner, an Eau Claire attorney suspected of committing 47 counts of misconduct involving 11 of his clients. The OLR had asked the court to revoke Gegner’s license and order him to pay $12,000 in restitution to former clients and insurance companies.

The OLR had charged Gegner in 2015 with 24 counts of misconduct and asked that his license be suspended for two years but amended its complaint four months later.

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