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NOTICE OF SUSPENSION (By Consent)
Case No. 20-79-GA Notice Issued: July 30, 2021 David L. Wisz, P 55981, Birmingham, Michigan, by the Attorney Discipline Board Tri-County Hearing Panel #69.
Suspension - 180 Days, Effective October 1, 2021 The respondent and the Grievance Administrator filed a Stipulation for Consent Order of Discipline, in accordance with MCR 9.115(F)(5), which was approved by the Attorney Grievance Commission and accepted by the hearing panel. Based on the parties’ stipulation that contains respondent’s admissions and no contest plea, the panel found that respondent committed professional misconduct by knowingly filing a false certificate of marriage with the Oakland County Register of Deeds, stealing a notebook which contained his soon-to-be ex-wife’s notes regarding strategy and privileged discussions she had with her attorney, surreptitiously recording his son’s therapy sessions with a clinical psychologist, knowingly and repeatedly disobeying court orders with regard to his son’s therapy, parenting time, use of a private investigator, and the release of his son’s information, and, providing knowingly false testimony during a hearing held in an action initiated by his ex-wife’s romantic partner to obtain a personal protection order against respondent.
The panel found that respondent knowingly disobeyed obligations under the rules of a tribunal, in violation of MRPC 3.4(c) (Counts Two and Three); engaged in conduct that involved dishonesty, fraud, deceit, misrepresentation or violation of the criminal law, where such conduct reflected adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer, in violation of MRPC 8.4(b) (Counts One-Three); and engaged in conduct that violated a criminal law of a state or of the United States, an ordinance, or tribal law pursuant to MCR 2.615, that being MCL 750.248 (making, altering, forging, or counterfeiting a public record), MCL 750.249 (uttering and publishing a forged, false, altered, or counterfeit record), MCL 750.356 (larceny), MCL 750.539c (eavesdropping upon private conversation), and MCL 750.539d (installation, placement, or use of a device for observing, recording, transmitting, photographing, or eavesdropping in a private place), in violation of MCR 9.104(5) (Counts One and Two). Respondent was also found to have violated MCR 9.104(1)-(3) (Counts One-Three); and MRPC 8.4(c) (Counts One-Three).
In accordance with the parties’ stipulation, the panel ordered that respondent’s license to practice law be suspended for a period of 180 days, effective October 1, 2021, pursuant to the parties’ agreement to provide respondent sufficient time to wind up client matters. Total costs were assessed in the amount of $1,349.60.