NOTICE OF REVOCATION Case No. 04-40-GA Notice Issued: November 11, 2004 Joan Z. Abdelnour, P 43461, Sterling Heights, Michigan, by the Attorney Discipline Board Tri-County Hearing Panel #106.
1. Revocation 2. Effective December 23, 2003 1 The respondent was found to be in default for her failure to file an answer to the formal complaint or appear at the hearing. Based on that default, the panel found that respondent failed to file a complaint with the EEOC on behalf of her client; made false statements to her client that she was waiting to receive a Aright to sue@ letter; failed to reply to her client=s requests for information regarding the status of her claim; and abandoned her client=s legal matter.
Respondent=s conduct was found to be in violation MCR 9.104(A)(1)-(4); and Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct 1.1(c); 1.2(a); 1.3; 1.4(a) and (b); 1.16; and 8.4(a)-(c). The hearing panel ordered that respondent=s license to practice law in Michigan be revoked and that the revocation will run concurrently with the three year suspension ordered in Grievance Administrator v Joan Z. Abdelnour, Case No. 03-62-GA. Costs were assessed in the amount of $1,858.25.
1 Respondent has been continuously suspended from the practice of law in Michigan since December 23, 2003. See Notice of Suspension, dated January 6, 2004, in Grievance Administrator v Joan Z. Abdelnour, Case No. 03-62-GA.