Oak View, CA 93022-9529
11 May 2004 | Active (19 years, 10 months ago) |
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11 February 2004 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (20 years, 1 month ago) Discipline w/actual suspension 00-O-11501 |
3 November 2003 | Active (20 years, 5 months ago) |
16 September 2003 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (20 years, 6 months ago) Suspended, failed to pay fees |
25 October 2002 | Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 00-O-11501 (21 years, 5 months ago) |
9 August 2002 | Active (21 years, 7 months ago) |
1 September 2001 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (22 years, 7 months ago) Suspended, failed to pay fees |
1 September 2001 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (22 years, 7 months ago) Admin Inactive/MCLE noncompliance |
26 September 1995 | Admitted to the State Bar of California (28 years, 6 months ago) |
February 11, 2004 JOEL STANLEY FREEMAN [#177703], 44, of Los Angeles was suspended for one year, stayed, placed on two years of probation with an actual 90-day suspension and was ordered to take the MPRE within one year and comply with rule 955. The order took effect Feb. 11, 2004. Freeman stipulated to three counts of misconduct.He repeatedly wrote checks or made overdraft ATM withdrawals against insufficient funds, paid his personal expenses from his client trust account, often against insufficient funds, and deposited personal funds into the account.He stipulated that he commingled personal and client funds, misused his client trust account and did not update his membership address with the State Bar.In mitigation, Freeman has no record of discipline and no clients complained about him to the bar. When he had been a lawyer for just two years, he attempted to take over his father’s practice but when he realized he did not have the business knowledge to run a practice, he began winding down. He did not practice for two and a half years. |