In re JAMES GORDON BANKS,
Attorney Number 6271110
1900 East Golf Road, Suite 750
Schaumburg, Illinois 60173-5834

File Information: M.R. 23379, 07 CH 78

  Mr. Banks, who was licensed in 2000, was suspended for ninety days. He knowingly hired a disbarred attorney to work in his office as a paralegal. The suspension is effective on December 8, 2009.

 In re MARK D. BRADLEY,
Attorney Number 3128330
2518 South Wyckles Road
Decatur, Illinois 62522-9696

File Information: M.R. 23363, 08 SH 108

  Mr. Bradley, who was licensed in 1980, was suspended for one year and until further order of the Court. He was arrested for making a threat to a Macon County Circuit Court Judge.  He was later indicted by a grand jury and charged with the offense of threatening a public official, a class three felony. He also solicited professional employment from four criminal defendants incarcerated in the Macon County jail, one of whom then hired Mr. Bradley to represent him.  He was suspended on an interim basis on December 10, 2008.

 In re WILLIAM EARL BROOKS,
Attorney Number 308080
35 East Wacker, Suite 1525
Chicago, Illinois  60601-2299

File Information: M.R. 23337, 08 CH 69

  Mr. Brooks, who was licensed in 1977, was suspended for eighteen months and until further order of the Court, with the suspension to run consecutive to a suspension imposed upon him earlier this year. He filed a false application in a bankruptcy proceeding, neglected a client’s post-dissolution of marriage matter, made misrepresentations to a court in that matter, and filed a sanctions motion against opposing counsel without a basis to do so. 

In re DENNIS JOHN CALLAHAN,
Attorney Number 3123218
819 Thatcher
River Forest, Illinois 60305-1329

File Information: M.R. 23339, 08 CH 111

  Mr. Callahan, who was licensed in 1979, was suspended for three years and until further order of the Court. He misappropriated $71,883.81 in escrow funds in relation to a dissolution of marriage case.

In re PATRICIA MONTES DeOCA,
Attorney Number 3126055
1223 West Lunt, Number 3B
Chicago, Illinois 60626-3078

File Information: M.R. 23394, 08 CH 95

  Ms. DeOca, who was licensed in 1980, was suspended for six months and until she makes pays certain restitution to two former clients. She failed to promptly refund unearned fees and did not keep clients informed about the status of their cases. The suspension is effective on December 8, 2009.

In re THOMAS ANDREW DORSEY III,
ATTORNEY NUMBER 6281310
230 West Carpenter
Springfield, Illinois 62702-4940

File Information: M. R. 23336, 08 SH 64

  Mr. Dorsey, who was licensed to practice in 2003, was suspended for one year and until further order of the Court, with the suspension stayed after thirty days by a two-year period of probation with conditions. He neglected two different clients by not responding to pleadings, not appearing in court, and failing to communicate about the status of their cases. Default judgments were entered against each client. The suspension is effective on December 8, 2009.

In re JUDD MARC HARRIS,
Attorney Number 6187598
123 West Madison, Suite 1800
Chicago, Illinois 60602-4610

File Information: M.R. 23235, 08 CH 96

  Mr. Harris, who was licensed in 1984, was censured and ordered to successfully complete a professionalism seminar conducted by the ARDC. He represented clients in two real estate tax deed matters who had conflicting interests. Each of the tax deed matters was eventually dismissed.

In re EDWARD EARLE HEARN,
Attorney Number 6194650
1002 East 75th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60619-2026

File Information: M.R. 23352, 07 CH 94

  Mr. Hearn, who was licensed in 1987, was disbarred. While serving as a pastor of a Chicago church, he misappropriated over $80,000 of church funds. 

In re KENNETH EDWARD MATEAS,
Attorney Number 6183645
346 North Lake Street
Aurora, Illinois 60506-4151

File Information: M.R. 23368, 09 CH 20

  Mr. Mateas, who was licensed in 1982, was disbarred on consent. He was convicted in Kane County of reproducing child pornography. He was sentenced to a four-year prison term and must register for life as a sex offender.

In re BRUCE NASH,
Attorney Number 6200502
3333 West Arthington, Suite 215
Chicago, Illinois 60624-4278

File information: M.R. 23293, 07 CH 68

  Mr. Nash, who was licensed in 1989, was suspended for thirty months and until further order of the Court. He engaged in conflicts of interest and dishonesty in two separate real estate transactions, and he neglected another client matter. He has been disciplined on prior occasions for unrelated misconduct.

In re JOHN F. PAWLOSKI,
Attorney Number 6243635
Post Office Box 7981
Belleville Illinois 62222-7981

File information M.R. 23419, 08 SH 115

  Mr. Pawloski, who was licensed to practice in 1997, was disbarred on consent. He misappropriated more than $25,000 from three estates where he had been appointed as temporary public guardian.  He also failed to diligently represent three other clients.

In re JAMES BRIAN PIERCE,
Attorney Number 3124698
212 North Canal Street
Chicago, Illinois 60606-1206

File information M.R. 23393, 07 CH 32

  Mr. Pierce, who was licensed in 1979, was suspended for one year and until further order of the Court. He converted funds from two different personal injury clients. He did not participate in the disciplinary proceeding.

In re MICHAEL JOSEPH PIETRZAK,
Attorney Number 3123560
1565 Star Way
Reno, Nevada 89511-8691

File Information: M.R. 23402, 09 CH 1

  Mr. Pietrzak, who was licensed in 1979, was suspended for three years and until he pays restitution in the amount of $374,690 to the Internal Revenue Service. He pled guilty to federal income tax evasion for the 2000 tax year and stipulated that he had sold stock received as compensation for over one million dollars and reported the money received as non-taxable loan proceeds. The suspension is effective on December 8, 2009.

In re GINA MICHELE SMITH,
Attorney Number 6278843
1809 Ashland Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21205-1505

File Information: M.R. 23338, 08 CH 97

  Ms. Smith, who was licensed in 2002, was suspended for sixty days and until further order of the Court, with the suspension stayed in its entirety by a one-year period of probation subject to certain conditions. While representing clients in two separate real estate matters, she failed to adequately protect the interests of both clients.

In re STEVEN ALLEN SMITH,
Attorney Number 6186121
3701 Algonquin Road, Suite 760
Rolling Meadows, Illinois 60008-3192

File Information: M.R. 23347, 04 CH 84

  Mr. Smith, who was licensed in 1983, was suspended for two years and until he successfully completes a professionalism seminar conducted by the Illinois Professional Responsibility Institute. He misled a corporate client about the status of its environmental litigation in order to generate fees, and he falsely billed another corporate client by charging the client for depositions that he did not attend and for work done by an attorney who had never performed any work on the client’s case.

 The Following Order was Entered by the Court Before the September 2009 Term but was not Included in any Previous ARDC Release

In re Byron Lee Landau, M.R. 23291, 09 RC 1510 (Ill. Sept. 22, 2009). Mr. Landau, of Santa Ana, California, was licensed in Illinois in 1978 and in California in 1995. He was suspended in California for two years, with the suspension stayed after sixty days by three years of probation subject to various conditions. He entered into improper business transactions with a client by taking a series of loans from the client. The Illinois Supreme Court imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended him for two years in Illinois, stayed after sixty days, by a term of probation subject to the conditions imposed in California. The suspension was effective on October 13, 2009.