Los Angeles, CA 90024-3526
24 July 2013 | Discipline, probation; no actual susp. 12-O-13141 (11 years, 9 months ago) |
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26 September 2006 | Admitted to the State Bar of California (18 years, 7 months ago) |
July 24, 2013 RUSSELL ADAM GREENMAN [#244064], 33, of Los Angeles, was suspended for one year, stayed, placed on two years’ probation and ordered to take the MPRE. The order took effect July 24, 2013. Greenman stipulated that he engaged in the unauthorized practice of law and failed to comply with requirements that he maintain a current address and phone number on his State Bar profile.The discipline was triggered by Greenman’s failure to report that he had complied with his MCLE requirements at the time his membership dues were paid in 2010. Several months later, Greenman left the firm he worked for and starting working as a contractor for another employer. For several months, the State Bar tried unsuccessfully to contact Greenman through his old law firm’s physical address and his old work email address and phone number, which were still listed as his contact information in his membership records. In September 2010, Greenman was enrolled inactive for non-compliance with MCLE rules. The following month, Greenman’s new employer began to represent a company as its corporate counsel. Unaware of the State Bar’s attempts to contact him about his MCLE requirements and the fact he was not entitled to practice law, Greenman prepared an operating agreement on behalf of the company.Greenman didn’t learn he was listed as ineligible to practice law until a fellow employee told him that December. According to the stipulation, Greenman said he had assumed his former employer sent in his MCLE compliance card prior to his leaving the firm. Greenman updated his contact information and submitted proof of his email compliance but remained not entitled to practice law until Jan. 13, 2011.In mitigation, Greenman had no prior discipline and the work he did while inactive was supervised by an active member of the State Bar, so there was no harm to the public. |