In Re: Laetitia Black

Summary

The court held that respondent was properly served with the formal charges, that her failure to answer resulted from her own inaction, and that the deemed-admitted order should not be set aside or supplemented with her proffered evidence. It found that the admitted facts established multiple violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct and imposed a one-year suspension, with all but six months deferred, followed by one year of unsupervised probation and specified conditions. Hughes, J., dissenting, would have deferred no part of the one-year suspension.