Milwaukee lawyer to find out punishment for keeping client settlement secret, other misconduct

By: Michaela Paukner, [email protected]//September 25, 2020//

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Next week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court will announce the punishment for a Milwaukee lawyer accused of keeping a $25,000 settlement secret from a client.

The high court is scheduled to release its opinion in the Office of Lawyer Regulation’s case against Coral Dawn Pleas of Pleas Williams on Tuesday.

In May, the OLR charged Pleas with eight counts of misconduct related to her handling of a client’s two personal-injury cases. The complaint accused Pleas of keeping the client’s $25,000 insurance settlement and transferring almost $7,000 more from her client trust account.

According to the OLR, Pleas also failed to take action on the client’s second personal-injury claim, allowing the statute of limitations to expire.

The OLR is asking the state Supreme Court to suspend Pleas’ law license for six months for the misconduct and require her to pay restitution. Follow @WLJReporter

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