Stark Ligon, as Executive Director of the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct v. Bruce Jamison…

Summary

The court affirmed the special judge's determination that Bennett violated numerous professional-conduct rules and ordered his disbarment. It accepted findings concerning incompetent and unauthorized handling of client funds, inadequate communication, unreasonable fees, conflicts of interest, commingling, failure to protect the client upon termination, false statements to a tribunal, and dishonesty or fraud, while rejecting findings of misappropriation and criminal misconduct because those findings were not supported by the record. The sanction was warranted by the serious prejudice to the client, accepted dishonesty-related violations, prior disciplinary history, and Bennett's admission that the evidence supported disbarment.