High court to decide whether to dismiss Eau Claire attorney’s disciplinary case

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to decide whether to dismiss a disciplinary case filed against a lawyer out of Eau Claire.

The Office of Lawyer Regulation charged Michael Rajek in 2014 with failing to submit a fee dispute to arbitration. The OLR alleged he had failed to respond to representatives of the State Bar’s arbitration program and had asked that his license be suspended for 60 days.

As a result, the OLR reconsidered its position after the justices declined to discipline Rajek in a separate matter, and the agency reached a stipulation with Rajek last year in which Rajek agreed to submit his dispute to arbitration. The referee in the case, James Erickson, filed a report in April recommending that the case be dismissed.

Rajek is representing himself. The OLR is represented by retained counsel, Matthew Anich of Dallenbach, Anich & Wickman.

Rajek earned his degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Law and was admitted to practice law in Wisconsin in 1974. He was publicly reprimanded in 2006, and the court also dismissed an OLR complaint against him in 1993. Follow @erikastrebel