Effective March 1, 2012, a three-judge panel of the Stafford County Circuit Court suspended Clive Allen O’Leary’s license to practice law for one year with terms for violating professional rules that govern diligence, communication, fees, safekeeping property, declining or terminating representation, bar admission and disciplinary matters, and misconduct.

Effective January 18, 2012, a three-judge panel of the Circuit Court for the City of Williamsburg suspended Bambi F. Walters’s privilege to practice law in Virginia for two years with terms.  Ms. Walters is not licensed in Virginia but was registered as an attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.   The court found that she violated Virginia professional rules that govern safekeeping property, unauthorized practice of law, multijurisdictional practice of law, communication concerning a lawyer’s services, and firm names and letterheads.  This was an agreed disposition of misconduct charges.

View Walters Order (PDF Posted 1/31/12)

On January 27, 2012, the Virginia State Disciplinary Board suspended Brian Keith Stevens’s license to practice law for sixty days for violating rules that govern diligence, safekeeping property, and responsibilities regarding nonlawyer assistants, and for violating the Virginia Consumer Real Estate Settlement Protection Act.

On December 9, 2011, a Virginia State Bar Fourth District – Section II Subcommittee issued a public reprimand to David Benjamin Weinberg for violating professional rules that govern communication, declining or terminating representation, and bar admission and disciplinary matters.