July 28, 2005 JULIA ANN KEMP [#146670], 54, of La Habra was suspended for six months, stayed, placed on one year of probation and was ordered to take the MPRE within one year. The order took effect July 28, 2005. Kemp stipulated to three counts of misconduct in two cases.In the first, she received a $1,500 advance fee to modify a client’s child support. Although she prepared some documents, she did not return her client’s phone calls and the client fired her and asked for a refund. She also did not respond to a State Bar investigator’s inquiries.In the second case, Kemp was retained by a couple to handle a disclosure issue involving a real property purchase. Although Kemp compiled information about the case, she did not return her clients’ phone calls and they too fired her. She refunded their advance fee.Kemp stipulated to two counts of failing to respond to clients’ reasonable status inquiries and to one count of failing to cooperate with the bar’s investigation.Kemp was privately reproved in 2001. |