Kentucky Bar Association, Movant v. Russell W. Burgin

Summary

The Kentucky Supreme Court found that Russell W. Burgin violated the professional-conduct rule requiring reasonable diligence and promptness by failing for years to negotiate and distribute a settlement check and address an associated Medicaid lien. The Court adopted a sixty-day suspension, with thirty days probated for two years, but replaced a recommended business-management course with an ethics and professionalism program and imposed conditions concerning the lien and proceeding costs.