MATTER OF TAPLEY

S20Y0754.

842 S.E.2d 36 (2020)

In the MATTER OF D. Duston TAPLEY, Jr.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: April 20, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Stephen Lewis , Assistant General Counsel, Paula J. Frederick , General Counsel, Jenny K. Mittelman , William Dallas NeSmith, III , Deputy General Counsel, State Bar of Georgia, 104 Marietta Street, NW, Suite 100, Atlanta, Georgia, for Appellant.

D. Duston Tapley, Jr. , D. Dustin Tapley, Jr. Attorney At Law, P. O. Box 117, Vidalia, Georgia, for Appellee.

Herman Maddox Kilgore , Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC, 36 Ayers Avenue, Marietta, Georgia, Quentin LaMont Marlin , Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP, 2 East Bryan Street, 10th Floor, P.O. Box 9946, Savannah, Georgia, for Other Party.


This disciplinary matter is before the Court pursuant to the Report and Recommendation issued by a special master who was appointed following the filing of a Formal Complaint, in which the State Bar asserted that respondent D. Duston Tapley, Jr. (State Bar No. 697875), who has been a member of the Bar since 1977, had violated a variety of the...

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