Lafayette, CA 94549
10 September 2009 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (15 years, 7 months ago) Discipline w/actual suspension 07-N-13233 |
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25 September 2007 | Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 07-N-13233 (17 years, 7 months ago) |
17 February 2007 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (18 years, 2 months ago) Discipline w/actual suspension 04-O-14239 |
1 March 2006 | Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 04-O-14239 (19 years, 2 months ago) |
16 September 2003 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (21 years, 7 months ago) Admin Inactive/MCLE noncompliance |
1 December 1981 | Admitted to the State Bar of California (43 years, 5 months ago) |
September 10, 2009 KARLA D. HENDERLONG [#100899], 55, of Walnut Creek was suspended for five years, stayed, placed on five years of probation with a two-year actual suspension and until she proves her rehabilitation, and she was ordered to comply with rule 9.20. The order took effect Sept. 10, 2009. Henderlong stipulated that she failed to comply on time with rule 955 (now renumbered as rule 9.20) by not submitting to the State Bar Court an affidavit that she notified clients, opposing counsel and other interested parties of her 2007 suspension from practice. She submitted her affidavit seven months late.Failure to comply with the rule is grounds for disbarment.Henderlong has been disciplined twice previously. She was privately reproved in 1997 and the underlying discipline in the current matter was imposed for commingling funds in her client trust account and failing to cooperate with the bar’s investigation.In mitigation, she has emotional difficulties, her aging parents were extremely ill, she provided evidence of her good character and no clients were harmed.February 17, 2007 KARLA DIANE HENDERLONG [#100899], 52, of Walnut Creek was suspended for two years, stayed, placed on two years of probation with a 90-day actual suspension and was ordered to take the MPRE and comply with rule 955. The order took effect Feb. 17, 2007. Henderlong stipulated that she commingled funds in her client trust account and did not cooperate with the bar’s investigation.She repeatedly used her trust account for personal purposes, issuing more than 50 checks to satisfy personal obligations. She also deposited non-client funds in the account and wrote a check against insufficient funds.Henderlong did not respond to five letters from bar investigators.In mitigation, no clients were harmed, Henderlong was under severe financial stress and she had emotional or physical difficulties. She was privately reproved in 1997. |