MEMBERS REV. MICHAEL MURRAY CHAIRPERSON JONATHAN E. LAUDERBACH
VICE-CHAIRPERSON BARBARA WILLIAMS FORNEY
SECRETARY JAMES A. FINK JOHN W. INHULSEN KAREN D. O'DONOGHUE MICHAEL B. RIZIK, JR.
LINDA S. HOTCHKISS, MD ANNA FRUSHOUR
STATE OF MICHIGAN
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WENDY A. NEELEY DEPUTY DIRECTOR
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ALLYSON M. PLOURDE CASE MANAGER
OWEN R. MONTGOMERY CASE MANAGER
JULIE M. LOISELLE RECEPTIONISTISECRETARY
NOTICE OF DISBARMENT
Case No. 18-136-GA
Notice Issued: August 28, 2019
Nathaniel H. Simpson, P 41722, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, by the Attorney Discipline Board Tri-County Hearing Panel #67.
Disbarment, Effective August 23, 2019.
Based on respondent's default and the evidence presented at the hearing, the hearing panel found that respondent committed professional misconduct when he appeared in court before district court judges multiple times while his license to practice law was suspended; had contact with clients or potential clients while suspended; practiced law while suspended; made false statements of material fact or law to a tribunal and failed to correct those false statements with the tribunal; and failed to answer a request for investigation.
The panel found that respondent made a false statement of material fact or law to a tribunal or failed to correct a false statement of materal fact or law previously made to the tribunal by the lawyer, in violation of MRPC 3.3(a)(1); knowingly failed to respond to a lawful demand for information from an admission or disciplinary authority, in violation of MRPC 8.1 (a)(2); 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); failed to answer a request for investigation, in violation of MCR 9.104(7), MCR 9.113(A) and (B)(2); practiced law while suspended, in violation of MCR 9.119(E)(1); had contact with clients or potential clients while suspended in violation of MCR 9.119(E)(2); appeared as an attorney before a court and judge while suspended, in violation of MCR 9.119(E)(3); and held himself out as an attorney while suspended, in violation of MCR 9.119(E)(4). Respondent was also found to have violated MCR 9.104(1)-(3) and MRPC 8.4(b) and (c).
The panel ordered that respondent be disbarred from the practice of law in Michigan. Costs were assessed in the amount of $1,682.23.
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