COMM. FOR LAWYER DISCIPLINE v. SCHAEFER

No. 10-0609.

364 S.W.3d 831 (2012)

COMMISSION FOR LAWYER DISCIPLINE, Petitioner, v. Heather SCHAEFER, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

April 20, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda A. Acevedo , Chief Disciplinary Counsel, Cynthia W. Hamilton , Senior Appellate Disciplinary Counsel, Office of the Chief Disc. Counsel, for Commission for Lawyer Discipline.

Heather Ann Badgett Schaefer , Plano, for Appellee.


PER CURIAM.

District Grievance Committees appoint evidentiary panels for attorney disciplinary actions, and quorums of the evidentiary panels hear and decide the actions. This case raises the question of whether a properly constituted quorum of an improperly constituted evidentiary panel has the authority to act in an attorney disciplinary matter. Following a unanimous finding of misconduct by an evidentiary panel quorum, an attorney appealed the panel's order of...

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