IN RE SCHLEMMER

No. 04-BG-707.

870 A.2d 76 (2005)

In re Donald L. SCHLEMMER, Respondent. A Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 17, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herman Alan Dubin, for respondent.

Elizabeth A. Herman, Senior Assistant Bar Counsel, with whom Joyce E. Peters, Bar Counsel at the time the brief was filed, for the Office of Bar Counsel.

Before TERRY and REID, Associate Judges, and BELSON, Senior Judge.


REID, Associate Judge:

The Board on Professional Responsibility ("the Board") has recommended that respondent, Donald L. Schlemmer, be reprimanded for violating (1) Rule 1.3(a) of the Rules of Professional Conduct when he failed to file an appeal, as requested by his client, after the Immigration Court denied the client's requests to withhold deportation and to grant him asylum, and (2) Rule 1.4(a) when he failed to inform his client that the appeal had not been filed...

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