NOTICE OF REVOCATION AND RESTITUTION Case Nos. 98-160-GA; 98-185-FA Sonja J. Branham, P-37754, Detroit, Michigan, by Attorney Discipline Board Tri-County Hearing Panel #35.
1) Revocation; 2) Effective November 25, 1998. Respondent was suspended from the practice of law in Michigan for 37 months in Case Nos. 95-170-GA; 95-187-FA, and for four years in Case Nos. 97-200-GA; 97-228-FA, both effective June 13, 1996. Those suspensions remain in effect. The panel found, by default, that respondent continued to practice law and hold herself out as an attorney while suspended; failed to answer the Request for Investigation; and failed to answer the Formal Complaints. Respondent also failed to appear at the disciplinary hearing.
The panel concluded that respondent's conduct violated MCR 9.103(C); MCR 9.104(1)-(4) and (7); MCR 9.113(A) and (B)(2); MCR 9.119(A), (B) and (E); MCL 600.916; MSA 27A.916; and Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct 1.16(a); 8.1(b); and 8.4(a) and (c).
The panel ordered that respondent's license to practice law in Michigan be revoked for the second time,1 and make restitution to one former client in the amount of $700. Costs were assessed in the amount of $182.75.
____________________ 1 Respondent's license was also revoked in Case Nos. 98-71- GA; 98-96-FA, effective August 22, 1998.