In re Petition for Disciplinary Action against Stephen J. Baird, a Minnesota Attorney, Registration No. 0398840. ...

Summary

The court imposed reciprocal disbarment on Baird under Rule 12(d) after determining that the disciplinary proceedings in North Dakota were fair and that disbarment was neither unjust nor substantially different from discipline warranted in Minnesota. The court treated the misconduct established in the North Dakota proceedings as conclusively proven because Baird did not participate in either those proceedings or the Minnesota reciprocal-discipline matter. The court emphasized Baird's repeated neglect, noncommunication, misrepresentations, failure to protect clients' interests, multiple prior disciplines, and the resulting harm to clients and the legal profession.