NOTICE OF REPRIMAND (By Consent)
Case No. 95-145-GA Rose M. Hooper, P-32677, Detroit, Michigan, by Attorney Discipline Board Tri-County Hearing Panel #19.
1) Reprimand; 2) Effective November 11, 1995. Respondent was retained to defend a landlord-tenant action. She pled no contest to allegations that she failed to raise any affirmative defenses on her client's behalf and specifically failed to raise a statute of limitations defense in the answer she filed to the tenant's complaint; failed to file a witness list, trial brief or jury instructions in compliance with the court's order; and failed to sign the proposed stipulation and order for substitution of attorney or to otherwise cooperate in the substitution of counsel as the defendant's attorney.
Respondent's conduct was alleged to be in violation of MCR 9.104(1)-(4); and Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct 1.1(a)- (c); 1.3; 1.4; 1.16(d); 3.4(c); and 8.4(a)and(c).
Costs were assessed in the amount of $65.96.