The Nebraska Supreme Court docket has suspended a Plattsmouth lawyer from the observe of regulation for six months.
In an opinion issued Friday, the courtroom mentioned in June 2021, the Counsel for Self-discipline filed formal prices in opposition to James Owen, who has practiced regulation in Nebraska since September 2015.
The fees alleged “violations referring to competence, diligence, communications, charges and misconduct, a few of that are attributable to his lack of appellate expertise.”
It concerned a divorce case in Johnson County that ended up earlier than the Court docket of Appeals, the place he failed to reply or notify his shopper when the case was despatched again to district courtroom.
It was his first try to attraction such a case.
A second rely associated to his drafting of an order presupposed to have been signed by a decide and e-filed, although the decide hadn’t signed it and it wasn’t filed. The shopper later realized Owen had falsified the doc.
Owen made a conditional admission that he violated his oath of workplace as an lawyer and did not contest the allegations, in trade for a six-month suspension.
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