IN RE WHITE-STEINER

No. SB-08-0119-D.

198 P.3d 1195 (2009)

In the Matter of a Member of the State Bar of Arizona, Janet L. WHITE-STEINER, Attorney No. 14295, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Arizona, In Division.

January 8, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C. by J. Scott Rhodes, Phoenix, Attorneys for Janet L. White-Steiner.

State Bar of Arizona by Patricia J. Ramirez, Phoenix, Attorney for the State Bar of Arizona.


OPINION

BALES, Justice.

¶ 1 In reviewing attorney discipline cases, the Disciplinary Commission must accept a hearing officer's factual findings if they have any reasonable basis. Because the Commission here did not defer to the Hearing Officer's finding that the attorney acted negligently, we decline to impose the Commission's recommended sanction of suspension, and instead order censure and two years probation...

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