Court reprimands Muskego attorney

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has publicly reprimanded a Muskego attorney for missing filing deadlines, failing to file appellate briefs and not following court orders.

Jeff Stobbe’s license to practice law has been suspended since June 4, 2013, for not fulfilling mandatory continuing legal education requirements. He has no history of professional discipline.

Tuesday’s discipline stems from a Sept. 9 Office of Lawyer Regulation complaint alleging Stobbe had committed six counts of misconduct in five client matters.  According to the OLR, Stobbe failed to further his clients’ interests, including failing to timely file a post-conviction motion or notice of appeal from a sentencing after probation revocation, not filing briefs and appendices for clients’ appeals despite an order from the state Court of Appeals and failing to pay sanctions that court placed on him for failing to file briefs and motions.

In the complaint, the OLR asked that the Supreme Court publicly reprimand Stobbe.

In its per curiam opinion released Tuesday, the court agreed that the public reprimand was an appropriate sanction but it noted that Stobbe appeared to be ill in several months in 2010, during which the misconduct occurred.

The court also ordered Stobbe to pay for the cost of the disciplinary proceeding.