Office of Lawyer Regulation v. Scott E. Selmer

Summary

The Wisconsin Supreme Court imposed reciprocal discipline on Scott E. Selmer after the Minnesota Supreme Court publicly reprimanded him and ordered one year of unsupervised probation. Because Selmer did not respond and did not establish any exception under Wisconsin's reciprocal-discipline rule, the court ordered a public reprimand and noted his separate failure to timely notify the Office of Lawyer Regulation.

Holdings

1. Wisconsin must impose discipline identical to that imposed by another jurisdiction unless one of the exceptions in SCR 22.22(3) applies; because Selmer did not allege that any exception applied, reciprocal public reprimand was warranted.
2. An attorney's failure to notify the director of public discipline imposed by another jurisdiction within 20 days of the effective date constitutes misconduct under SCR 22.22(1).

Questions Presented

1. Whether Wisconsin should impose reciprocal discipline identical to the public reprimand imposed by the Minnesota Supreme Court.
2. Whether Selmer's failure to notify the Office of Lawyer Regulation of the Minnesota discipline within 20 days constituted misconduct under SCR 22.22(1).

Disposition

other