Kentucky Bar Association, Movant v. Heather Mary Boone McKeever

Summary

The Kentucky Supreme Court imposed reciprocal discipline and permanently disbarred McKeever after determining that her South Carolina misconduct was conclusively established and that she failed to prove fraud, lack of jurisdiction, or a basis for substantially different discipline. The Court rejected her challenges to the South Carolina proceeding, the validity and finality of the South Carolina sanction, and the use of debarment under South Carolina law. The Court also ordered McKeever to notify courts and clients and to pay the costs of the Kentucky disciplinary proceeding.