February 26, 2021
Leo Francis Sharpe Jr. , P.O. Box
1513, Portsmouth, VA 23705-1513
VSB Docket Nos. 19-010-099989
and 20-010-118800
Circuit Court Case No. CL20-5180
Effective
February 22, 2021, the Circuit Court for the City of
Portsmouth suspended Leo Francis Sharpe Jr.’s license
to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia for one year
with terms for violating professional rules that govern
diligence, communication, and safekeeping property. This was
an agreed disposition of misconduct charges.
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Sharpe Order
February 26, 2021
Kevin Michael Brunick, 3704 Pacific Avenue,
Suite 300, Virginia Beach, VA 23451
VSB Docket No.
19-022-117276
On February 22, 2021, the Virginia State
Bar Disciplinary Board suspended, with terms, Kevin Michael
Brunick’s license to practice law in the Commonwealth of
Virginia for
30 days. Mr. Brunick stipulated to the violation of rules
that govern competence, diligence, communication, conflict of
interest, bar admissions and disciplinary matters, and
misconduct.
February 23, 2021
Michael Jeremiah Seck, The Law
Office of Michael J. Seck, PLC5 Wirt Street, SW, Suite 204,
Leesburg, VA 20175
VSB Docket No.
19-060-114901
By Order entered and effective February 22,
2021, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board suspended
Michael Jeremiah Seck’s
license to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia for
a period of sixty days for violating professional rules
that govern diligence, communication, safekeeping property,
bar admission and disciplinary matters, and misconduct. This
was an agreed disposition of misconduct charges.
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Order
February 23, 2021
Christopher
Broughton Shedlick, 6408-R Seven
Corners Place, Falls Church, VA 22044
VSB Docket No.
20-053-116360
By Order entered and effective on February
19, 2021, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board suspended,
with terms, Christopher Broughton
Shedlick’s license to practice law in the
Commonwealth of Virginia for
a period of three months for violating professional
rules that govern safekeeping property.
February 19, 2021
Timothy John Murphy, Murphy’s Law Firm, LLC, 108 LaGrange
Avenue, LaPlata, MD 20646
VSB Docket No.
21-000-121296
Effective February
16, 2021, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board revoked Timothy John Murphy’s license to practice law in the
Commonwealth of Virginia. This was an agreed disposition
for a reciprocal revocation based on his January 1,
2021, disbarment from the practice of law by the Court of
Appeals of Maryland.
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Murphy Order
February 9, 2021
Christian Levine Simpson, Commonwealth
Accident Injury Law, PC, Suite 400, PO Box 1998, Richmond, VA
23218-1998
VSB Docket Nos. 21-031-116946
and 21-031-118386
Circuit
Court Case No. CL20-6056-6
Effective March
13, 2021, the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond
suspended Christian
Levine Simpson’s
license to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia for 45
days with terms for violating professional rules that govern
competence, diligence, communication, declining or terminating
representation, bar admission and disciplinary matters, and
misconduct. This was an agreed disposition of misconduct
charges.
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Simpson Order
February 1, 2021
Jonathan
Preston Fisher, Esq.,
The Fisher Law
Firm, P.C.. P.O. Box 11118, Blacksburg, VA 24062
VSB Docket
Nos.19-101-114660 and 19-101-115111
By Order entered on
January 26, 2021 and effective February 1, 2021, the Virginia
State Bar Disciplinary Board suspended Jonathan
Preston Fisher’s license to practice law in the
Commonwealth of Virginia for
a period of 60 days with terms for violating
professional rules that govern diligence, communication,
safekeeping property, declining or terminating representation.
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Fisher Order
January 29, 2021
Timothy John Murphy, Murphys
Law Firm, LLC, 108 LaGrange Avenue, LaPlata, MD 20646
VSB Docket No.
21-000-121296
By order
entered January 21, 2021, and effective January 28,
2021, pursuant to the Rules of the Supreme Court, Part Six,
Section IV, Paragraph 13-24, the Virginia State
Bar Disciplinary Board summarily suspended Timothy John
Murphy’s license to practice law in the Commonwealth of
Virginia based on his disbarment by the Court of Appeals of
Maryland on January 1, 2021. Murphy has been ordered to appear
before the Board on February 19, 2021, to show cause why the
same discipline should not be imposed in Virginia.
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Murphy Order
January 28, 2021
George Ed Barker Jr., 28548 Hawthorne Drive, Meadowview, VA
24361
VSB Docket No. 21-000-121243
The Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board suspended George
Ed Barker, Jr.’s license to practice law in the
Commonwealth of Virginia for a
period of six months effective January 20, 2021 for
violating terms imposed in a Disciplinary Board Order entered
March 17, 2020. This was an agreed disposition.
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Barker Order
January 28, 2021
James Stephen Del Sordo, Esq., Argus Legal, PLLC, 9255 Center
Street, Suite 307, Manassas, VA 20110
VSB
Docket No. 20-053-116380
Effective January 22, 2021,
pursuant to Virginia Rule of Professional Conduct 8.5(a) and
(b), the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board revoked James Stephen
Del Sordo’s
license to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia for
violating professional rules that govern candor to tribunal,
fairness to opposing party and counsel, unauthorized practice
of law, and misconduct.
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DelSordo Order
January 14,
2021
Ernest Paul
Francis, Ernest P. Francis, Ltd., 105 Oronoco Street, Ste.
309, Alexandria, VA 22314
VSB Docket No.
17-042-107034
Effective March 23, 2021, the
Virginia State
Bar Disciplinary Board revoked Ernest Paul Francis’s license to
practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia for violating
professional rules that govern scope of representation,
communication, meritorious claims and contentions, fairness to
opposing party and counsel, and truthfulness in statements to
others. This was an agreed disposition of misconduct charges.
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Francis Order
January 12,
2020
Paul Joseph
Bohnet,
The Law Office of Paul Joseph Bohnet, 509 Norman Lane, Suite
100, Virginia Beach, VA 23452-5741
VSB Docket No.
20-021-118602
Effective January 12, 2021, the Second District, Section I
Subcommittee of the Virginia State Bar issued a public
reprimand with terms to Paul Joseph Bohnet
for violating professional rules that govern
diligence, communication, fairness to opposing party and
counsel, and Bar admission and disciplinary matters. This
was an agreed disposition of misconduct charges.
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Bohnet Order
January 12, 2021
Kurt Joseph Pomrenke,
17763 Mahogany Dr, Abingdon, VA 24210
VSB Docket No. 21-000-121199
Effective December 28, 2020, the Virginia State Bar
Disciplinary Board revoked Kurt Joseph Pomrenke’s
license to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia based
on his affidavit consenting to revocation. By tendering his
consent to revocation at a time when allegations of misconduct
are pending, Pomrenke acknowledges that the material facts
upon which the allegations of misconduct are pending are true.
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Pomrenke Order
