Wisconsin Supreme Court tacks on addition months to already suspended lawyer

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Cedarburg Attorney Kevin Rosin‘s law license has been suspended for an additional six months, according to a Wisconsin Supreme Court July 2, 2024, order obtained by the Wisconsin Law Journal.

“Upon careful review of the matter, we approve the stipulation and suspend Attorney Rosin’s law license for six months, imposed consecutively to his recently expired suspension (of one-year),” the Court noted.

According to court documents, Rosin was simultaneously employed by two law firms where he “drew his salary from Firm 1 and his monthly draw toward compensation from Firm 2 for this period.”

“Both firms were concerned that simultaneous employment, like Attorney Rosin’s, would prevent them from conducting adequate conflicts checks,” Court documents stated.

“Attorney Rosin failed in other ways to properly finish his work at Firm 1,” court documents stated, noting that Rosin deleted his entire email box at Firm 1, including all subfolders, sent items and deleted items.

“Doing so violated Firm 1’s “Email, Internet, and Computer Use Policy,” which Attorney Rosin had signed on March 26, 2019, documents noted.

Court records recognized that Rosin did not file an answer to the OLR‘s complaint. In March 2024, however, Rosin entered into a stipulation and no-contest plea to the complaint.

As previously reported by the Wisconsin Law Journal, in April of 2023, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered that the license of Attorney Kevin Rosin to practice law in Wisconsin be suspended for a period of one-year, effective May 25, 2023.

The court in 2023 also ordered that Rosin comply with the provisions of SCR 22.26 concerning the duties of a person whose license to practice law in Wisconsin has been suspended. The court further ordered that compliance with all conditions of this order is required for reinstatement.  See SCR 22.28(3).

In the 2023 stipulation, Rosin does not contest that he committed two acts of professional misconduct as alleged by the OLR in its complaint against him, according to court documents previously obtained by the Wisconsin Law Journal.

Last year, Rosin also did not contest that a one-year suspension of his Wisconsin law license is appropriate discipline for his misconduct, documents stated.

According to 2023 court documents, Rosin was admitted to practice law in Wisconsin in May 2004 and has not previously been subject to professional discipline.

Count 1: By forming [the Wisconsin LLC] to advance his
own financial interests while employed by the firm;
soliciting a firm client and providing services to
that client outside the firm; billing, collecting and
retaining for himself legal fees that should have been
billed through the firm; soliciting another potential
client to provide services outside the firm; and
making misrepresentations to the firm when initially
confronted with questions about his actions, in each
instance, [Attorney] Rosin violated SCR 20:8.4(c).[2]

Count 2: By forming [the Wisconsin LLC] to advance his
own financial interests while employed by the firm;
soliciting a firm client and providing services to
that client outside the firm; billing, collecting and
retaining for himself legal fees that should have been
billed through the firm; soliciting another potential
client to provide services outside the firm; and
making misrepresentations to the firm when initially.