Stark Ligon, Executive Director of the Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct, Appellant v. Frank David…

Summary

The court affirmed the Committee’s findings that David Rees violated multiple professional-conduct rules but increased his suspension from thirty days to one year, crediting the thirty days already served. It held that the Committee did not clearly err in rejecting additional dishonesty, deceit, and client-objective violations, and that the court could not review an allegation on which Rees failed to obtain a ruling below. Justice Brown, concurring, agreed with the increased sanction and emphasized Rees’s disciplinary record and pattern of conflicts-of-interest misconduct across related matters.