Ethics
Lawyer suspended after criticizing consumer’s mothering expertise in response to detrimental assessment
The Colorado Supreme Courtroom not too long ago suspended a lawyer for numerous causes, together with making detrimental remarks a couple of consumer on Fb. (Picture from Shutterstock)
A Denver lawyer who referred to as a consumer “a horrible mom” in response to a detrimental Fb assessment has been suspended from regulation follow for her on-line feedback and her conduct in three different circumstances.
Bernadette Teresa Gonzales has been suspended for 9 months, with solely 60 days to be served if she efficiently completes a two-year probationary interval, in keeping with an Aug. 29 summary of motion by the Colorado Supreme Courtroom’s presiding disciplinary choose.
The Denver Post reported on the suspension, which begins on Oct. 3.
The detrimental assessment, posted on the Facebook page for Gonzales’ regulation agency, stated Gonzales is a “horrible lawyer” who “doesn’t do her job and is a nasty impolite individual.”
Gonzales replied within the feedback part. “Watch out of this lady and her household,” Gonzales wrote. “She is a horrible mom. She permits her youngsters to wreck different individuals’s property after which blames everybody else. She doesn’t like listening to the reality about her lack of parenting nor the nugatory baby she raised. Simply one other dysfunctional household elevating entitled kids.”
In accordance with the suspension order, in different issues, Gonzales:
• Didn’t reply particular person interrogatories in a lawsuit filed in opposition to her by a contract paralegal.
• Didn’t maintain copies of any settlement or communications concerning the foundation or fee for her charges for one consumer.
• Didn’t set a listening to for everlasting orders in a consumer’s home relations matter, resulting in dismissal of the case.
Gonzales didn’t reply to the ABA Journal’s request for remark when reached by cellphone.
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