October 12,
2021
Jesse Burkhardt
Beale, Boone Beale, 4391 Ridgewood Center Dr., Suite G,
Woodbridge, VA 22192-5399
VSB Docket No.
20-051-118711
Effective October 12, 2021, the
Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board issued a public
reprimand with terms to Jesse Burkhardt Beale
for violating professional rules that govern communication,
fees, and declining or terminating representation. This was an
agreed disposition of misconduct charges.
View Beale Order
September 15,
2021
Steven
Paul Hanna, 416 North Sycamore Street, Petersburg, VA
23803
VSB
Docket No. 21-031-121740
Effective September 10, 2021,
the Virginia State Bar
Third District, Section I Subcommittee
issued a public reprimand without terms to
Steven Paul Hanna for violating professional
rules that govern competence and diligence. This was an agreed
disposition of misconduct charges.
View Hanna Order
September 8,
2021
Ellen Mary
Lynch, 3709 N Nelson St, Arlington, VA 22207
VSB Docket Nos.
18-051-112300 and 21-000-122407
Effective September 7, 2021, the
Virginia State
Bar Disciplinary Board revoked Ellen Mary Lynch’s license to
practice law based on her affidavit consenting to the
revocation. By tendering her consent to revocation at a time
when a disciplinary complaint, Investigation, or Proceeding is
pending, Lynch acknowledges that the material facts upon which
the disciplinary complaint, Investigation, or Proceeding is
predicated are true.
View Lynch Order
August 27, 2021
Michael
Steven Arif, 3900 University Drive, Ste. 100, Fairfax, VA
22030
VSB Docket
No. 19-053-113618
Effective August 26, 2021, the Virginia
State Bar Disciplinary Board suspended, with terms,
Michael Steven Arif’s
license to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia for
five years for violating professional rules that govern
diligence, safekeeping property, fairness to opposing party
and counsel, bar admission and disciplinary matters, and
misconduct. This
matter came before the Board as an accepted Agreed Disposition
pursuant to
Part 6, Section IV, Paragraph 13-6.H of the Rules of the
Supreme Court of Virginia.
View Arif Order
August 27, 2021
Matthew Howard
Swyers, 2703 Jones Franklin Rd, Ste. 205, Cary, North Carolina
27518
VSB Docket
Nos. 18-052-110203
Effective August 25, 2021, pursuant
to Virginia Rule of Professional Conduct 8.5 (b)(1), the
Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board suspended Matthew
Howard Swyers’s license to practice law in the
Commonwealth for a period of two years for
violating professional rules that govern competence,
diligence, safekeeping property, responsibilities regarding
nonlawyer assistants,
unauthorized
practice
of
law, and
misconduct, as well as corresponding rules governing practice
before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
This
was an agreed disposition of misconduct charges.
Rules of the Supreme Court Part Six, Section
IV, Paragraph
13-6.H
View Swyers Order
August 27, 2021
Charles John
Covati, C.J. Covati, PC, 4370 Starkey Rd Ste 4A, Roanoke, VA
24018
VSB Docket No.
22-000-123229
Effective August 26, 2021, the
Virginia State
Bar Disciplinary Board revoked Charles John Covati’s license to
practice law based on his affidavit consenting to the
revocation. By tendering his consent to revocation at a time
when allegations of misconduct are pending,
Covati
acknowledges that the material facts upon which the allegations of
misconduct are predicated are true.
View Covati Order
August 24, 2021
Timothy
Paul Sceviour,
Abrons, Chiusano & Sceviour, PLLC, 760 Lynnhaven Parkway,
Suite 140, Virginia Beach, VA 23452
VSB Docket No.
20-022-116875,
Circuit Court Case No. CL20-6015
Effective August 19, 2021, the Circuit Court for the City of
Virginia Beach issued a public reprimand without terms to Timothy Paul
Sceviour
for violating professional rules that govern diligence,
communication, and conflict of interest: general rule.
August 24, 2021
Christopher
Broughton Shedlick, 6408-R Seven Corners Place, Falls Church,
VA 22044,
VSB Docket
No. 21-000-123012
Effective August 23, 2021, the Virginia
State Bar Disciplinary Board suspended
Christopher Broughton Shedlick’s
license to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia for
three months for failure to fulfill the terms imposed by the
Disciplinary Board on February 19, 2021, in VSB Docket No.
20-053-116360. This was an agreed disposition of
misconduct charges.
View Shedlick Order
August 12, 2021
Alexander
Harkness Bell, Philip J. Geib, PC, 4360 Shore Drive, 103-104,
Virginia Beach, VA 23455
VSB Docket No.
20-010-118703
Effective August 11, 2021, the Virginia State
Bar First District Subcommittee issued a public reprimand
without terms to Alexander
Harkness Bell
for violating professional rules that govern diligence and
communication. This was an agreed disposition
of misconduct charges.
View Bell Order
August 11, 2021
Andrew Robert
Sebok, 1520 Holland Avenue, Norfolk, VA 23509
VSB Docket No.
20-021-118914
Effective August 11, 2021, the Virginia State
Bar Second District, Section I Subcommittee issued a public
reprimand with terms to Andrew
Robert Sebok
for violating professional rules that govern
competence and diligence. This was an agreed disposition
of misconduct charges.
View
Sebok Order
August 11, 2021
Martin Michael
Brennan Jr., Brennan Law Firm, PLLC, 13801 Reese Boulevard
West
Suite 110,
Huntersville, NC 28078
VSB Docket No.:
22-000-123282
Effective August 10, 2021, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary
Board revoked Martin Michael Brennan Jr.’s
license to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This
was an agreed disposition
for a
reciprocal revocation, based on his May 11, 2021, disbarment
from the practice of law by the North Carolina State Bar.
View Brennan Order
August 11, 2021
Randall Sousa,
101 North Fifth St, #1608, Richmond, VA 23219
VSB Docket
Nos.: 20-052-116377,
20-052-117438, 20-052-117991, 20-052-117965 and 20-052-117557
Circuit Court Case No.
CL21-1795
Effective August 10, 2021, the
Circuit Court
of the City of Richmond revoked Randall Sousa’s license to practice law in the Commonwealth for violating
professional rules that govern competence, diligence,
safekeeping property, declining or terminating representation,
and bar admission and disciplinary matters.
View Sousa Order
August 6, 2021
Morris Andrew Bander, 2549 Centerville Turnpike, Chesapeake, VA
23322
VSB Docket No. 21-010-120772
Effective August 4, 2021, the
Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board
revoked Morris Andrew Bander’s license to practice law
in the Commonwealth of Virginia based on his affidavit
consenting to the revocation. By tendering his consent to
revocation at a time when allegations of misconduct are
pending, Bander
acknowledges that the material facts upon which the allegations of
misconduct are pending are true.
View Bander Order
July 30, 2021
Morris Andrew Bander, 2549 Centerville Turnpike, Chesapeake,
VA 23322
VSB Docket No. 21-000-120772
Effective July 29, 2021, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary
Board summarily suspended Morris Andrew Bander’s
license to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia
pursuant to Part Six, Section IV, Paragraph
13-22.A
of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia.
Mr. Bander is ordered to appear before the Virginia State Bar
Disciplinary Board on August 27, 2021, to show cause why his
license should not be further suspended or revoked.
View
Bander Order
July 20, 2021
Brenton Daniel Vincenzes, Vincenzes Law PLLC, 8515 Gambel Oak
Drive, Springfield, VA 22153-0972
VSB Docket No.
21-051-122941
Effective July 19, 2021, the Virginia State Bar Fifth
District, Section I Subcommittee issued a public reprimand
without terms to Brenton Daniel Vincenzes
for violating the terms of a Private
Admonition imposed on July 17, 2020. This was an agreed
disposition.
View Vincenzes Order
July 16, 2021
Andrea Celestine
Long, Andrea C. Long, P.C., The James B. Long Law Center, 1417
Brook Road, Richmond, VA 23220-2305
VSB Docket No. 20-032-117741
Effective July 15,
2021, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board suspended
Andrea Celestine Long’s
license to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia for
six months for violating the rules that govern
competence, diligence, communication, declining or terminating
representation, and meritorious claims and contentions. This
was an agreed disposition of misconduct charges.
View
Long Order
July 15, 2021
Walter Ware
Morrison, 2628 Barrett Street, Ste 100, Virginia Beach, VA
23452
VSB Docket Nos.
20-0022-118646 and 21-022-120601
Effective July 15, 2021, the Virginia State
Bar Second District, Section II Subcommittee issued a public
reprimand with terms to Walter
Ware Morrison
for violating professional rules that govern
safekeeping property and responsibilities of partners and
supervisory lawyers. This was an agreed disposition
of misconduct charges.
View Morrison Order
July 12, 2021
Ardra Monique
O’Neal, The O'Neal Firm LLP, 700 12th St NW Ste 700,
Washington, DC 20005
VSB Docket No.
20-041-118685
Effective July 1, 2021, the Virginia State
Bar Fourth District, Section I Subcommittee issued a public
reprimand without terms to Ardra Monique O’Neal
for violating Maryland’s professional
rules that govern communication; fees; unauthorized practice
of law, multijurisdictional practice of law; and misconduct,
and Virginia’s professional rules that govern reporting
misconduct. This was an agreed disposition
of misconduct charges.
View O’Neal Order
July 7, 2021
JeRoyd Wiley
Greene III, 2415 Westwood Avenue, Richmond, VA 23230
VSB Docket No.
20-042-116876
Effective June 30, 2021, the Virginia
State Bar Fourth District Subcommittee, Section II issued a
public reprimand with terms to JeRoyd Wiley Greene III
for violating professional
rules that govern competence, diligence, communication,
safekeeping property, and declining or terminating
representation. This was an agreed disposition
of misconduct charges.
View Greene Order
