High court suspends ex-Stafford Rosenbaum partner’s license for a year

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended the license of a Madison lawyer for one year.

The Office of Lawyer Regulation filed a complaint last year charging Amie Trupke with two counts of misconduct in response to actions she is alleged to have taken when she was a partner at Madison-based Stafford Rosenbaum from 2002 to 2016.

The OLR alleged that Trupke had not told her partners or firm that she had earned more than $70,000 over three years by working as an independent reviewer for a service offered by the American Arbitration Association. The OLR also alleged that Trupke had misled the managing partner at the firm about that work.

The OLR sought a year-long suspension of Trupke’s license.

Trupke, represented by James Bartzen of Madison-based Boardman & Clark, filed an answer in October, admitting to the OLR’s allegations.

In January, Trupke and the OLR filed a stipulation in which Trupke pleaded no contest to the two charges the OLR had filed against her, admitted to the allegations in the OLR’s complaint and agreed not to contest the OLR’s recommendation for a year-long suspension.

The OLR and Trupke had asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to consider the OLR’s complaint and accept the stipulation without appointing a referee in the matter.

On Tuesday, the high court accepted the stipulation in a per curiam decision. Her license suspension starts on June 5. Follow @erikastrebel