Paul Alan Schelly was admitted to the California Bar 14th December 1972, but has since been disbarred. Paul graduated from Loyola Law School.
Lawyer Information
| Name | Paul Alan Schelly |
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| First Admitted | 14 December 1972 (51 years, 4 months ago) |
| Status | Disbarred |
| Bar Number | 54505 |
Contact
| Phone Number | 909-622-4431 |
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| Fax Number | 909-622-1851 |
Schools
| Law School | Loyola Law School (Los Angeles CA) |
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| Undergraduate School | University of California at Los Angeles (CA) |
Address
| Current Address | Law Ofc Paul A Schelly, 925 N Garey Ave Pomona, CA 91767 |
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History
| 24 December 2009 | Disbarred (14 years, 4 months ago) Disbarment 05-O-00181 |
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| 9 December 2007 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (16 years, 4 months ago) Ordered inactive 05-O-00181 |
| 30 October 2006 | Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 05-O-00181 (17 years, 6 months ago) |
| 14 January 2005 | Active (19 years, 3 months ago) |
| 13 October 2004 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (19 years, 6 months ago) Discipline w/actual suspension 03-O-03386 |
| 3 October 2003 | Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 03-O-03386 (20 years, 7 months ago) |
| 12 July 2002 | Discipline, probation; no actual susp. 01-O-01834 (21 years, 9 months ago) |
| 14 December 1972 | Admitted to the State Bar of California (51 years, 4 months ago) |
Discipline Summaries
December 24, 2009 PAUL ALAN SCHELLY [#54505], 68, of Pomona was disbarred Dec. 24, 2009, and was ordered to make restitution and comply with rule 9.20 of the California Rules of Court. The State Bar Court review department upheld a recommendation by a hearing judge that Schelly be disbarred. He sought review, arguing that the punishment was excessive.An immigration lawyer, Schelly was suspended in 2004 and then did not pay the discipline costs associated with his membership fee. Although he received a letter notifying him that payment of those costs was a condition of his return to active status, he testified that he didn’t open the letter. However, he instructed his wife to pay the costs. Because she sent a personal check instead of the required certified payment, Schelly remained suspended.He appeared three times at immigration hearings until an immigration judge informed him he had not been reinstated. He also was suspended by the immigration court for 60 days. The bar court found that he violated the California Supreme Court order that prohibited him from holding himself out as entitled to practice in California and for misrepresenting his status to the immigration judge. The court also found that those misrepresentations, as well as his statement to the bar’s probation office that he had not practiced law while suspended, amounted to moral turpitude.Schelly failed to pay another client’s unearned fees or communicate with that client, and the review department found that he used “inappropriate tactics to intimidate†the client into paying. One of his staff threatened to have the client deported and Schelly treated her in an abusive fashion, the review judges said. Using his position of trust to the detriment of vulnerable clients is considered an act of moral turpitude.Schelly has a record of three prior disciplines resulting from multiple acts of misconduct. His disciplinary record, wrote Judge JoAnn Remke, “shows a disturbing pattern of his failure to properly communicate with clients, and to ensure fees or judgments were properly paid to clients, as well as his propensity to engage in acts amounting to moral turpitude, either intentionally or through gross negligence.â€October 23, 2004 PAUL ALAN SCHELLY [#54505], 62, of Huntington Park was suspended for two years, stayed, placed on three years of probation with a 60-day actual suspension and was ordered to take the MPRE within one year. The order took effect Oct. 13, 2004. Schelly stipulated that he failed to comply with probation conditions attached to a 2002 discipline: he did not file three quarterly probation reports on time or submit proof that he completed four hours of MCLE courses in law office management or six hours in legal ethics.In the underlying discipline, he stipulated to misconduct in two matters. He issued a check against insufficient funds in his client trust account and, in the second matter, he did not return his client’s phone calls, deposit client funds in his trust account, refund or account for the unearned fee, or perform legal services competently, and he improperly withdrew from employment and misappropriated client funds.Schelly also was privately reproved in 2001.July 12, 2002 PAUL ALAN SCHELLY [#54505], 60, of Los Angeles was suspended for two years, stayed, and placed on three years of probation. The order took effect July 12, 2002. Schelly stipulated to misconduct in two matters.In one case, he issued a check against insufficient funds in his client trust account.In an immigration case for which his client paid $4,685 in advance fees and costs, Schelly corresponded with the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador on his client's behalf, but he did not send the required file or request an immigrant visa on time, so the visa application was cancelled. Even when invited by the embassy to reinstate the application, Schelly did nothing.He did not return his client's phone calls, deposit client funds in his trust account, refund or account for the unearned fee, or perform legal services competently, and he improperly withdrew from employment and misappropriated client funds.Schelly was privately reproved in 2001.In mitigation, he cooperated with the bar's investigation and he had no record of discipline in 30 years of practice prior to 2001. |