Dennis Wright

October 30, 2014

DENNIS LYNN WRIGHT [#60210], 69, of San Rafael, was suspended from the practice of law for six months and ordered to comply with rule 9.20 of the California Rules of Court. He was also placed on two years’ probation and faces a two-year suspension if he does not comply with the terms of his disciplinary probation. The order took effect Oct. 30, 2014. Wright stipulated that for 15 months after he was fired he failed to refund $450 in unearned fees to a client he had represented in a probate matter. He also failed to release the client’s file during that time period, provide an accounting of advanced fees or respond to a letter from a State Bar investigator. In mitigation, he entered into a pretrial stipulation with the State Bar. He had one prior record of discipline, a 2014 suspension for four counts of failing to competently perform, five counts of failing to communicate with his clients, three counts of failing to cooperate in State Bar investigation, one count of failing to return client’s file, one count of failing to execute substitution of attorney and forward client’s file to client’s new attorney, one count of moral turpitude for issuing at least 14 checks against insufficient funds in his trust account and one count of commingling client funds with personal funds in his trust account.

March 15, 2014

DENNIS LYNN WRIGHT [#60210], 68, of San Rafael was suspended for one year stayed, placed on three years’ probation with an actual 120-day suspension and ordered to take the MPRE and comply with rule 9.20 of the California Rules of Court. The order took effect March 15, 2014.