In re CHARLES WENDELL BEACHAM, Attorney Number 142891
301 Ladonna Blvd.
Evansville, Indiana 47711-1863

File Information:  M.R. 24745, 2011PR00073

Mr. Beacham was licensed in Illinois in 1969 and in Indiana in 2003. He was suspended in Indiana for at least 180 days, without automatic reinstatement, for not properly communicating with a client and for charging the client a nonrefundable retainer and an unreasonable attorney’s fee. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended him for six months and until he is reinstated in Indiana. The suspension is effective on October 11, 2011.

In re SHANNAN HAYES BEDGOOD, Attorney Number 6226610
710 South Manchester Street
Westchester, Illinois 60154-2716

File Information: M.R. 24684, 2010PR00087

Ms. Bedgood, who was licensed in 1995, was suspended for six months and until further order of the Court, with the suspension stayed in its entirety by a one-year period of probation with conditions. During a period when she was removed from the Master Roll of Attorneys for failing to register, she engaged in the unauthorized practice of law in two separate matters. Also, she pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor offense of driving under the influence of alcohol.

In re MARK EDWARD BRABEC, Attorney Number 6236750
96 Summit Drive, Apartment 3303
Gilberts, Illinois 60136-4037

File Information: M.R. 24713, 2010PR00147

Mr. Brabec, who was licensed in 1996, was suspended for two years and until further order of the Court, with the suspension stayed after sixty days by a two-year period of probation with conditions. He was found guilty of battery, disorderly conduct, and reckless driving. The suspension is effective on October 17, 2011.

In re CATHERINE M. BRAME, Attorney Number 6220263
One State Farm Plaza, A3
Bloomington, Illinois 61710-0001

File Information: M.R. 24746, 2011PR00074

Ms. Brame was licensed in California in 1987 and in Illinois in 1994. She was disbarred in California for misappropriating over $80,000 in client funds. The Illinois Supreme Court imposed reciprocal discipline and disbarred her.

In re STEVEN A. BRENNER, Attorney Number 6205976
Post Office Box 493
Homewood, Illinois 60430-8493

File Information:  M.R. 24721, 2009PR00131

Mr. Brenner, who was licensed in 1991, was suspended for one year and until he makes certain restitution to former clients. He obtained an $18,000 bond refund by submitting a forged petition following his client’s death, neglected two separate matters, did not refund unearned fees, and made false statements to the ARDC to obstruct an inquiry. The suspension is effective on October 17, 2011.

In re KENT RICHARD BRODY, Attorney Number 302732
29 South La Salle Street, Suite 328
Chicago, Illinois 60603-1553

File Information: M.R. 24681, 2010PR00042

Mr. Brody, who was licensed in 1971, was suspended for thirty days. He engaged in the unauthorized practice of law by representing clients in at least eight different legal matters while his name was removed from the Master Roll of Attorneys for failing to register and not completing his Minimum Continuing Legal Education requirements. The suspension is effective on October 17, 2011.

In re MICHAEL JOSEPH CAMINITI, Attorney Number 6183738
777 Lake Zurich Road, Suite 120A
Barrington, Illinois 60010-3106

File Information: M.R. 24654, 2008PR00048

Mr. Caminiti, who was licensed in 1982, was censured for entering into a loan transaction with a client without advising the client of her right to seek the advice of independent counsel prior to entering into the transaction or disclosing that his own interests might conflict with the interests of the client.  

In re PETER DAVID CAMINITI, Attorney Number 6190538
777 Lake Zurich Road, Suite 120A
Barrington, Illinois 60010-3106

File Information: M.R. 24653, 2008PR00049

Mr. Caminiti, who was licensed in 1985, was suspended for ninety days. He engaged in a conflict of interest when he drafted trust documents for a client providing for a $25,000 bequest to each of his two children. He also failed to timely initiate probate proceedings after the client’s death and, after opening the estate, he continued to dissipate estate funds to pay the rent on property held by the testator at the time of her death. The suspension is effective on October 17, 2011.

In re MARK L. CHAEL, Attorney Number 6277239
1630 Oakwood Court
Munster, Indiana 46321-3913

File Information: M.R. 24761, 2010PR00182

Mr. Chael, who was licensed in 2002, was suspended for six months. While employed at a Chicago law firm concentrating in patent and intellectual property matters, he recorded more than 260 hours of time he falsely claimed to have spent on behalf of one of the firm's clients during a two-month period. His conduct was discovered before the affected client paid any of the fees associated with the false billings. The suspension is effective October 17, 2011.

In re JOHNNIE MAE CHEN, Attorney Number  6193365
3905 Fernbank Drive, Apartment 809
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46815-5407

File Information: M.R. 24625, 2010PR00077

Ms. Chen, who was licensed in 1986, was suspended for six months and until further order of the Court. She neglected a will contest matter, failed to refund an unearned fee, and did not appear at the disciplinary hearing. 

In re BECKY LYNN DAHLGREN, Attorney Number 569100
919 Wimberly Way
Lisle, Illinois 60532-3150

File Information: M.R. 24588, 2007PR00091

Ms. Dahlgren, who was licensed in 1976, was suspended for nine months and until she completes courses in professionalism and law office management. She made false statements regarding assets in her personal bankruptcy proceeding. Further, in four separate real estate matters, she misappropriated a total of approximately $12,500 in escrow funds belonging to clients and third persons. The suspension is effective on October 11, 2011.  

In re JOHN N. DORE, Attorney Number 661007
134 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1208
Chicago, Illinois 60602-1016

File Information: M.R. 24566, 2007PR00122

Mr. Dore, who was licensed in 1974, was suspended for five months and ordered to complete the ARDC Professionalism Seminar. He asserted frivolous positions in order to harass others in connection with three different client matters and made false statements about the integrity of a judge. The suspension is effective on October 11, 2011. 

In re HERB N. ELESH, Attorney Number 6237019
401 South Milwaukee Avenue, Suite 230
Wheeling, Illinois 60090-5082

File Information: M.R. 24571, 2009PR00134

Mr. Elesh, who was licensed in 1996, was suspended for six months. He sent threatening and harassing demand letters directly to a drug treatment center where his client had been a patient, despite receiving repeated notifications from the center’s attorney that it was represented in the matter.  The suspension is effective on October 11, 2011.  

In re DAVID M. FAHRENKAMP, Attorney Number 3122820
205 North Second
Edwardsville, Illinois 62025-0625

File Information: M.R. 24668, 2011PR00007

Mr. Fahrenkamp, who was licensed in 1978, was censured. He failed to file employer’s tax returns for his law practice and he did not remit employee withholdings to the IRS. 

In re RICHARD WILLIAM FISCHER, Attorney Number 6210641
425 North New Ballas Road
St. Louis, Missouri 63141-6814

File Information: M.R. 24739, 2011PR00068

Mr. Fischer was licensed in Missouri in 1991 and in Illinois in 1992. He was disbarred in Missouri for accepting a $5,000 retainer and then failing to perform any legal services or return the retainer to the client. He also did not pay his bar enrollment fee, failed to comply with continuing legal education requirements, engaged in the unauthorized practice of law while he was suspended, failed to file state tax returns, and did not cooperate with the Missouri lawyer disciplinary authorities. The Illinois Supreme Court imposed reciprocal discipline and disbarred him.

In re DONALD DALE GARDINER, Attorney Number 6276503
53 West Jackson Boulevard, Suite 950
Chicago, Illinois 60604-3849

File Information: M.R. 24830, 2011PR00024

Mr. Gardiner, who was licensed in 2002, was censured for mailing two intimidating letters to his former supervisor's home.

In re RONALD STEVEN GERTZMAN, Attorney Number 943592
205 West Randolph Street, Suite 401
Chicago, Illinois 60606-1834

File information: M.R. 24622, 2009PR00100

Mr. Gertzman, who was licensed in Illinois in 1972, was suspended for two years and until further order of the Court.  He neglected a client’s commercial foreclosure defense matter, failed to keep the client informed about the status of the matter, charged an unreasonable fee of $10,000 in the case, and failed to promptly refund the unearned portion of the fee when the client discharged him.

In re STEVEN DONALD GRIMM, Attorney Number 3127167
700 Peachtree Trail
Collinsville, Illinois 62234-5244

File Information: M.R. 24576, 2008PR00057

Mr. Grimm, who was licensed in 1980, was suspended for two years and until he makes certain restitution. He engaged in a conflict of interest when he represented a client in a loan transaction while, at the same time, having a professional and business relationship with the other party to the loan transaction. The suspension is effective on October 11, 2011.

In re DONNA M. GUERIN, Attorney Number 6186680
500 South Kenilworth Avenue
Elmhurst, Illinois 60126-3931

File Information: M.R. 24732, 2011PR00065

Ms. Guerin, who was licensed in Illinois in 1984, was disbarred on consent. She was convicted in a federal court in New York of tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States. She and others acted to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by designing, marketing, implementing and defending fraudulent tax shelters using means and methods intended to deceive the IRS about the validity of those shelters, and about the circumstances under which the tax shelters had been marketed and implemented. She is scheduled to be sentenced on October 14, 2011.

In re LANCE HADDIX, Attorney Number 1095846
111 West Washington Street, Suite 1815
Chicago, Illinois  60602-3435

File Information: M.R. 24619, 2011PR00041

Mr. Haddix was licensed in Illinois in 1967 and in California in 1989. In 2006, the State Bar Court of California publicly reproved him, subject to terms and conditions, for failing to withdraw properly from representing clients in a civil fraud action. Because he did not comply with the reproval terms, the Supreme Court of California suspended him for one year and stayed the suspension subject to his being placed on probation for five years, on the condition that he actually be suspended for the first thirty days of probation and that he comply with the other conditions of probation. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended him for one year, staying the suspension after thirty days by five years of probation subject to the conditions imposed by the Supreme Court of California. The suspension is effective on October 11, 2011.

In re JEFFREY BRYAN HAMMERLUND,
Attorney Number 6180521
309 North Main Street
Algonquin, Illinois 60102-2427

File Information: M.R. 24624, 2010PR00124

Mr. Hammerlund, who was licensed in 1981, was suspended for thirty days, required to refund $500 to a client, and ordered to complete the ARDC Professionalism Seminar. He neglected a collection matter, failed to communicate with his client, and did not return the unearned fee to the client. The suspension is effective on October 17, 2011.

In re THOMAS FRANCIS HOWARD, Jr.,
Attorney Number 1271067
510 East 22^nd Street
Lombard, Illinois 60148-6110

File Information: M.R. 24748, 2010PR00059

Mr. Howard, who was licensed in 1974, was suspended for thirty days. He neglected a client’s personal injury claim, resulting in sanctions being entered against the client, and then made misrepresentations to the client regarding the status of the case. The suspension is effective on October 17, 2011.

 In re PETER THOMAS HOWE, Attorney Number 6208490
284 Falling Brook Drive
Troy, Michigan 48098-4694

File information: M.R. 24614, 2011PR00035

Mr. Howe, who was licensed in Illinois in 1992, was disbarred on consent. He misappropriated more than $65,000 from a personal injury client.

In re LORI JO KIEFFER, Attorney Number 6275268
1617 Second Avenue, Suite 210
Rock Island, Illinois  61201-8625

File Information: M.R. 24744, 2011PR00072

Ms. Kieffer was licensed in Illinois in 2001 and in Iowa in 2002. She was reprimanded in Iowa for communicating with an opposing party without obtaining the permission of the attorney who was representing that party. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and reprimanded her.

In re JUSSI KUSTAA KIVISTO, Attorney Number 6180946
20912 Pinar Trail
Boca Raton, Florida 33433-1620

 File Information: M.R. 24662, 2011PR00049

Mr. Kivisto was licensed in Illinois in 1981 and in Florida in 1983. He was disbarred in Florida for collecting excessive attorney’s fees from a decedent’s estate. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and disbarred him.

In re JAMES CYRIL KOTZ, Attorney Number 6209042
5624 West 79^th Street, Suite 2
Burbank, Illinois 60459

 File Number: M.R. 24829, 2011PR00081

Mr. Kotz, who was licensed in 1992, was disbarred on consent. He was convicted in federal court of creating a fictitious scheme to conceal the receipt of taxable income garnered through the sale of real estate. He was sentenced to a three-year term of probation, with the first ninety days to be spent in home confinement with electronic monitoring. 

 

In re MARILYN T. KUHR, Attorney Number 1545027
2311 North Oakley Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60647-3237

File Information: M.R. 24704, 2010PR00100

Ms. Kuhr, who was licensed in 1975, was transferred to inactive disability status and until further order of the Court because she was found to be incapacitated from continuing to practice law.

In re ELLEN FRANCES LANG, Attorney Number 6203508
350 South Jackson Street, Apt 424
Denver, Colorado 80209-3360

File Information: M.R. 24759, 2010PR00120

Ms. Lang, who was licensed in 1990, was disbarred. She induced her mother to purchase a home in Evanston by falsely claiming that she, Ms. Lang, had been diagnosed with cancer and that she needed to live near to where she was receiving cancer treatments. She caused the home’s sellers to execute a warranty deed conveying title of the property to Ms. Lang, rather than her mother, and then concealed from her mother the fact that she held title to the property. She then obtained a mortgage on the property and used the $150,000 loan proceeds for her own benefit. She failed to cooperate with the ARDC investigation into her misconduct.

In re BRIAN EDWARD LEACH, Attorney Number 6229677
Post Office Box 7006
Algonquin, Illinois 60102-7006

File Information: M.R. 24680, 2010PR00011

Mr. Leach, who was licensed in 1995, was suspended for six months and until further order of the Court. He neglected a client’s criminal appeal, resulting in the appeal’s dismissal, and then made false statements to his client regarding the status of the appeal. He failed to appear at his disciplinary hearing. The suspension is effective on October 14, 2011.

 In re JAMES E. LEENY, Attorney Number 6225435
53 West Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, Illinois 60604-3430

File Information: M.R. 24695, 2010PR00161

Mr. Leeny, who was licensed in 1994, was censured. He was convicted of misdemeanor battery, stemming from an attempt to flee from a Cook County Forest Preserve Police Officer. He was sentenced to a 24-month period of probation and was ordered to perform 100 hours of community service.  

In re STEVEN ROBERT LISS, Attorney Number 6192526
7880 Exchange Place
La Jolla, California 92037-3703

File Information: M.R. 24740, 2011PR00069

 Mr. Liss was licensed in Illinois in 1986 and in California in 1987. He was disbarred in California for engaging in the unauthorized practice of law, charging unconscionable and illegal fees, failing to return unearned fees, and failing to put client funds into a client trust account. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and disbarred him.

In re EDWARD JAMES MAHON, Attorney Number 1733583
20 Danada Square W, No. 135
Wheaton, Illinois 60189-2000

File Information: M.R. 24758, 2010PR00068

 

Mr. Mahon, who was licensed in 1978, was disbarred. He misappropriated $5,000 in client settlement funds, engaged in the unauthorized practice of law by continuing to represent clients after he had been removed from the Master Roll of Attorneys for failing to register, did not cooperate with the ARDC investigation into his misconduct, and failed to appear at his disciplinary hearing.

 

In re DARREN MICHAEL MALEK, Attorney Number 6291235
125 South Kalamazoo Mall, Suite 205
Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007-4869

File information: M.R. 24591, 2010PR00080

Mr. Malek, who was licensed in Illinois in 2007, was censured. He was convicted of leaving the scene of a traffic accident in Michigan.

In re JEFFREY MICHAEL McCARTHY, Attorney Number 6208791
136 East 9th Street
Lockport, Illinois 60441-3402

 File Information: M.R. 24585, 2009PR00007

Mr. McCarthy, who was licensed in 1992, was suspended for six months and until he makes certain restitution. He neglected two domestic relations matters, failed to communicate with clients, did not refund unearned fees and failed to cooperate with the ARDC. The suspension is effective on October 11, 2011.

In re MARIAN FRANCES McELROY, Attorney Number 3128924
1700 20^th Street
North Chicago, Illinois 60064-2504

File Information: M.R. 24808, 2010PR00141

Ms. McElroy, who was licensed in 1981, was suspended for eighteen months, with the suspension stayed after four months by a one-year period of probation with conditions. She converted approximately $8,000 in settlement funds from a client’s civil litigation claim. The suspension is effective on October 17, 2011.

In re MARK MILOS, Attorney Number 6291820
2900 Roosevelt Road, Suite 100
Kenosha, Wisconsin 53143-4642

File Information: M.R. 24760, 2010PR00069

Mr. Milos, who was licensed in 2007, was suspended for ninety days and ordered to complete the ARDC Professionalism Seminar. He used his Wisconsin real estate broker’s license to enter a condominium owned by a law client’s opponent in litigation in order to obtain evidence that he later used in the litigation. He also made false statements to a police officer investigating the circumstances surrounding his entry into the property. The suspension is effective on October 17, 2011.

In re MORRIS DAVID MINUSKIN, Attorney Number 3125366
21 South Belmont, Apartment 1
Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004-6180

File Information: M.R. 24797, 2010PR00109

Mr. Minuskin, who was licensed in 1979, was censured. He appeared in court and filed pleadings on behalf of several clients after he was removed from the Master Roll of Attorneys for failing to register and not complying with his Minimum Continuing Legal Education requirements. 

In re KENNETH BRIAN MOLL, Attorney Number 6199874
1654 North Burling Street
Chicago, Illinois 60614-5157

 File Information: M.R. 24667, 2009PR00132

Mr. Moll, who was licensed in 1989, was suspended for two years. While representing a client in federal multidistrict litigation, he violated a court order relating to confidential discovery materials when he permitted an unauthorized person to view documents that were subject to the order and also participated in the filing of a motion to intervene in the case without first obtaining the signature of the purported intervenor. The suspension is effective on October 17, 2011.

In re MARK GERARD MULROE, Attorney Number 6201672
2750 West Roosevelt Road
Chicago, Illinois 60608-1048

File Information: Docket No. 111378, 2007PR00059

Opinion Entered September 22, 2011 and Appears at 2011 IL 111378

Mr. Mulroe, who was licensed in 1989, was suspended for ninety days. He converted approximately $115,000 that he should have been holding for a client in relation to a divorce case. The Court upheld a finding that he had no deceptive or dishonest intent to take the funds. The mandate of suspension is set to issue 35 days from the entry of the opinion.

In re OLUFEMI F. NICOL, Attorney Number 6225736
203 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1900
Chicago, Illinois 60601-1263

File Information: M.R. 24669, 2010PR00016

Mr. Nicol, who was licensed in 1994, was suspended for six months and until further order of the Court. At a time when he was earning a $190,000 annual salary from a Chicago law firm, he avoided in bad faith the repayment of approximately $78,000 in education loans guaranteed by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission.    

In re THOMAS JOSEPH NOONAN, Attorney Number 6183683
701 Market Street, Suite 1210
St. Louis, Missouri 63101-1858

File Information: M.R. 24683, 2011PR00059

Mr. Noonan was licensed in Missouri in 1980 and in Illinois in 1982. He was suspended in Missouri for an indefinite period of time, with the suspension was stayed in its entirety by probation with conditions. He pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of a controlled substance and one count of attempt to possess a controlled substance. The Illinois Supreme Court imposed reciprocal discipline, suspended him for seven months, and stayed the suspension in its entirety because he had successfully completed his probation in Missouri.

In re BARRY M. ORLYN, Attorney Number 2117401
Post Office Box 45257
Los Angeles, California 90045-0257

File Information:  M.R. 24617, 2011PR00039

Mr. Orlyn was licensed in Illinois in 1960 and in California in 1965. California imposed a four year stayed suspension, which included a three-year term of probation and an actual period of suspension of two years and until he establishes entitlement to reinstatement. He misappropriated $9,000 in client funds, failing to deposit the money in a client trust account, and endorsed his client’s name on a check without the client’s knowledge or consent. The Illinois Supreme Court imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended him for four years, with the suspension stayed by three years of probation and until he is reinstated in California. The suspension is effective on October 17, 2011.

In re TIMOTHY O’REILLY O’SULLIVAN,
Attorney Number 6182347
11 South Newstead
St. Louis, Missouri 63108-2213

File Information:  M.R. 24741, 2011PR00070

Mr. O’Sullivan was licensed in Missouri in 1981 and in Illinois in 1982. He was disbarred in Missouri for engaging in the unauthorized practice of law while he was suspended, failing to comply with continuing legal education requirements, not filing state tax returns, and not cooperating with the disciplinary authority. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and disbarred him.

 In re TOMMY D. PAYNE, Attorney Number 6217419
Post Office Box 439280
Chicago, Illinois 60643-9280

File Number: M.R. 24835, 2010PR00171
 

Mr. Payne, who was licensed in 1993, was suspended for six months and until further order of the Court. He neglected a civil matter, failed to return an unearned fee and failed to cooperate with the ARDC. He failed to appear for his disciplinary hearing.  

 

In re JOSEPH MICHAEL PISULA, Attorney Number 3128120
21020 North Rand Road, Suite C
Lake Zurich, Illinois 60047-3006

File information: M.R. 24722, 2009PR00013

Mr. Pisula, who was licensed in 1980, was suspended for nine months. While serving as the president of a title insurance company, he failed to segregate title premium funds for the benefit of the underwriter. He also failed to timely remit the funds to the underwriter and converted approximately $81,000 of the funds for his own business purposes. The suspension is effective on October 17, 2011.

In re CONNIE JUNE POSTELLI, Attorney Number 6257460
1227 West 95th Avenue
Crown Point, Indiana 46307

File Information: M.R. 24690, 2010PR00117

Ms. Postelli, who was licensed in 1999, was suspended for thirty days. She requested reimbursement from her client of $2,400 in expenses she had not actually incurred. When her client requested supporting documentation regarding those expenses, she fabricated and sent to her client four invoices purporting to be from a third party. The suspension is effective on October 17, 2011.

In re D. MICHAEL RICKGAUER, Attorney Number 6196020
411 Hamilton Boulevard, Suite 1708
Peoria, Illinois 61602-1104

File Information: M.R. 24651, 2010PR00163

Mr. Rickgauer, who was licensed in 1987, was suspended for three months. He falsely reported to the Minimum Continuing Legal Education Board of the Supreme Court of Illinois that he had completed 20 hours of continuing legal education activity during the 2007 to 2009 reporting period. In fact, he had enrolled to take only 19.25 hours of CLE work and his secretary, at his direction, completed some of the online CLE classes that Mr. Rickgauer claimed to have completed.  The suspension is effective on October 17, 2011.

In re RYAN M. ROSENTHAL, Attorney Number 6270524
500 Skokie Boulevard, Suite 150
Northbrook, Illinois 60062-2859

File Information: M.R. 24590, 2010PR00058

Mr. Rosenthal, who was licensed in 1999, was suspended for five months and ordered to complete the ARDC Professionalism Seminar. He settled a client's personal injury matter without the client's permission. He also signed his client's name to a release and settlement draft in a manner that imitated the client's actual signature. He then signed the release as a witness to his client's purported signature. The suspension is effective on October 11, 2011.

In re ERNEST THOMAS ROSSIELLO, Attorney Number 2397137
134 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1330
Chicago, Illinois 60602-1057

File Number: M.R. 24742, 2008PR00112

Mr. Rossiello, who was licensed to practice in 1971, was suspended for nine months. He practiced law during a period when he was suspended for professional misconduct. The suspension is effective on October 17, 2011.

In re ANDREW JOSEPH RUKAVINA, Attorney Number 6184983
28643 North Sky Crest Drive
Mundelein, Illinois 60060-5307

File Information: M.R. 24818, 2010PR00099

Mr. Rukavina, who was licensed in 1983, was suspended for six months. He mailed a false and misleading advertisement and failed to disclose to prospective real estate clients that he would be receiving additional fees for issuing title insurance and performing a title review. The suspension is effective on October 17, 2011.

 In re HECTOR FRANCISCO SCARANO,
Attorney Number 6279687
1200 Harger Road, Suite 500
Oak Brook, Illinois 60523-1819

File Information: M.R. 24591, 2010PR00003

Mr. Scarano, who was licensed in 2003, was suspended for three months and until he makes certain restitution and was ordered to complete the ARDC Professionalism Seminar. He neglected five different legal matters, failed to refund an unearned fee, and used letterhead stationery that did not clearly show that a member of his firm was not licensed to practice in Illinois. The suspension is effective on October 11, 2011.

 In re RICHARD FRANK SCHOUTEN, Attorney Number 6197529
1535 East Racine Avenue
Waukesha, Wisconsin 53187-0527

File Information: M.R. 24702, 2010PR00113

Mr. Schouten, who was licensed in 1988, was suspended for six months and until further order of the Court. He failed to cooperate with a disciplinary investigation in Wisconsin where he is also licensed to practice. He failed to appear at his disciplinary hearing in Illinois.

In re WILLIAM SUMNER SCOTT, Attorney Number 2534088
201 West Lake Street, Suite 243
Chicago, Illinois 60606-1803

File Information: M.R. 24743, 2011PR00071

Mr. Scott was licensed in Illinois in 1968 and in Florida in 1992. He was suspended in Florida for three years for misleading an investor into creating a currency exchange brokerage company in which the investor and a client of Mr. Scott’s were to be 50% shareholders. He then represented the client, the investor, the company, and third parties in various capacities against one another. The Illinois Supreme Court imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended him for three years. The suspension is effective on October 11, 2011.

In re DAVID MICHAEL SHULTS, Attorney Number 6279797
555 Skokie Boulevard, Suite 500
Northbrook, Illinois 60062-2845

File Information: M.R. 24810, 2010PR00031

Mr. Shults, who was licensed in 2003, was disbarred. He neglected five different client matters and charged an unreasonable fee. He failed to appear at his disciplinary hearing.

In re NEIL ALAN SPECTOR, Attorney Number 6181744
747 North LaSalle Street, Suite 500B
Chicago, Illinois 60654-5531

File Information:  M.R. 24644, 2010PR00075

Mr. Spector, who was licensed to practice law in 1981, was censured. He practiced law after being removed from the Master Roll of Attorneys for failing to register and not complying with Minimum Continuing Legal Education requirements. He also cursed at an opposing party after a court appearance.

In re AMY MALDONADO TEHAUNO, Attorney Number 6256961
7322 Southwest Freeway, Suite 1100
Houston, Texas 77074-2032

File Information: M.R. 24796, 2010PR00128

Ms. Tehauno, who was licensed in 1998, was censured. While representing a client in a petition for lawful permanent residency, she did not respond to a request for additional information from immigration authorities, which caused her client’s petition to be denied. In addition, she initially failed to cooperate with the ARDC.

In re JOSE SALVADOR TELLEZ, Attorney Number 6198124
1102 Scott
Laredo, Texas 78042-6658

File Information:  M.R. 24620, 2011PR00040

Mr. Tellez was licensed in Texas in 1985 and in Illinois in 1988. The State Bar of Texas twice publicly reprimanded him for failing to communicate adequately with clients. The Illinois Supreme Court imposed reciprocal discipline and reprimanded him.  

In re MICHAEL LEE TINAGLIA, Attorney Number 2835886
9700 West Higgins Road, Suite 1015
Rosemont, Illinois 60018

 File Number: M.R. 24623, 2010PR00110

Mr. Tinaglia, who was licensed in Illinois in 1977, was censured and ordered to complete the ARDC Professionalism Seminar. He notarized the signature of his client’s wife on a power of attorney, despite the fact that he did not see her sign the document or take any steps to verify the authenticity of her purported signature.

In re RICHARD ALAN VAN DEN BUSSCHE,
Attorney Number 3128284
455 Coventry Lane, Suite 107
Crystal Lake, Illinois 60014-7570

File Information: M.R. 24682, 2010PR00101

Mr. Van Den Bussche, who was licensed in 1980, was censured and ordered to complete the ARDC Professionalism Seminar. He represented both a woman who was seeking to be appointed guardian of a minor and the natural mother of that minor in a child custody case without completely disclosing how his representation of them could affect his representation of each.

In re CARL MAURICE WALSH, Attorney Number 2928884
39 South LaSalle Street, Suite 1400
Chicago, Illinois  60603-1707

File Information: M.R. 24747, 2009PR00091

Mr. Walsh, who was licensed in 1965, was suspended for one year and until further order of the Court.  He neglected a client’s personal injury matter, allowing the case to be dismissed for want of prosecution four times, and made misrepresentations to the client about the status of the matter.

 In re ANDERSON J. WARD, Attorney Number 6212303
21470 Main Street, Suite 201
Matteson, Illinois 60443-3715

File Information: M.R. 24699, 2009PR00037

Mr. Ward, who was licensed in 1993, was suspended for three years and until further order of the Court. He allowed a criminal client to use his client trust fund account to operate an investment scheme that resulted in the misappropriation of over $200,000 in investor funds. He also employed a disbarred attorney in his law practice.  

In re ANDREW DEAN WERTH, Attorney Number 6196780
2822 Central Street
Evanston, Illinois 60201-1280

File Information: M.R. 24787, 2010PR00108

Mr. Werth, who was licensed in 1987, was suspended for four months. He neglected legal matters involving four separate clients, misrepresented to each of those clients that he had negotiated a settlement or obtained a judgment on the client’s behalf, and delivered cashier’s checks to the clients that purported to represent the amounts of settlements or judgments obtained from the clients’ opponents in litigation. In actuality, he had purchased the checks using his own funds. The suspension is effective on October 17, 2011.

In re KEVIN BRUCE WITT, Attorney Number 6231570
223 North Walnut Street
Milford, Illinois 60953-1054

File information: M.R. 24642, 2010PR00165

Mr. Witt, who was licensed in 1996, was suspended for six months and until further order of the Court and was ordered to make certain restitution and comply with continuing legal education requirements. He practiced law after being removed from the Master Roll of Attorneys for failing to register and not complying with Minimum Continuing Legal Education requirements. He did not appear at his disciplinary hearing.

In re HARVEY DWAYNE WRIGHT, Attorney Number 6212280
430 East 162^nd Street, Suite 299
South Holland, Illinois 60473-2258

File information: M.R. 24643, 2008PR00079

Mr. Wright, who was licensed in Illinois in 1993, was disbarred on consent. He misappropriated funds from three clients and entered into a prohibited business transaction with a client when he borrowed money from that client.

The Following Orders Were Entered By The Court in Disciplinary Cases Before The September 2011 Term But Were Not Included In Any Previous Information Release

In re AVALON E’LAN BETTS-GASTON, Attorney Number 6271949
Post Office Box 1133
Matteson, Illinois 60443

 File Number: M.R. 23704, 2008PR00005
(Order entered on June 29, 2011)

Ms. Betts-Gaston, who was licensed in 2000, was suspended on an interim basis and until further order of Court. Earlier, the Hearing Board recommended her disbarment for engaging in six separate instances of mortgage fraud/equity stripping through lease-buyback agreements.  She caused significant harm to her clients, all of whom were vulnerable and experiencing serious financial problems, because each one of them lost a significant amount of money, and all but one, lost their homes.

In re CONSTANTINE PETER KALLAS, Attorney Number 6229526
800 Roosevelt Road, Building B, Suite 314
Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137-5839

File Information: M.R 24666, 2011PR00057
(Order entered on July 27, 2011)

Mr. Kallas, who was licensed in 1995, was suspended on an interim basis and until further order of the Court. While serving as an Assistant Chief Counsel at the Office of Principal Legal Advisor, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service, he entered into a scheme with his wife to charge aliens between $10,000 and $20,000 in order to submit false documentation to federal immigration authorities to obtain the immigration status that the aliens desired. The couple collected at least $950,000 through this scheme. He was found guilty in federal court in California of money laundering and obstruction of justice and he was sentenced to a 212-month prison term.

In re STEPHEN MAYER MASTERS, Sr., Attorney Number 1790609
58 North Chicago Street, Suite 405
Joliet, Illinois 60432-4365

File Information: M.R 24763, 2009PR00116
(Order entered on July 21, 2011)

Mr. Masters, who was licensed in 1970, was transferred to inactive disability status and until further order of the Court because he was found to be incapacitated from continuing to practice law.  

In re JOHN BREWSTER OHLE, III, Attorney Number 6280742
790 West Frontage Road, Suite 115
Northfield, Illinois 60093-1204

File Information: M.R 24679, 2011PR00058
(Order entered on August 2, 2011)

Mr. Ohle, who was licensed in 2003, was suspended on an interim basis and until further order of the Court. He was convicted in a federal court in New York of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to commit wire fraud, and tax evasion. He was sentenced to a sixty month prison term. He was also ordered to make restitution of $5,553,680.74. He created false invoices to generate referral fees on transactions related to a tax shelter that he marketed, sold and implemented. He concealed the receipt of those fees by failing to report, on his individual income tax returns, the referral fees, as well as funds he had embezzled from a client for whom he had acted as a trustee. He also failed to report approximately $6 million in personal income.

In re FRANK EDWARD PETERS, Jr., Attorney Number 2182203
Post Office Box 1132
Avon, Colorado 81620-1132

 File Information: M.R  24724, 2011PR00064
(Order entered on August 24, 2011)

Mr. Peters, who was licensed in1972, was suspended on an interim basis and until further order of the Court. He was convicted in federal court in New York of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and other offenses. He was sentenced to a 60-month prison term, a three-year term of supervised release, and he was ordered to pay $11,237,839.80 in restitution to a bank and $750,661.56 to the Small Business Administration. In addition, he was ordered to forfeit $23,154,259.00 to the United States.

In re HERBERT F. STRIDE, Attorney Number 2755076
5559 North Elston Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60630-1314

File Information: M.R. 24618, 2011PR00037
(Order entered on May 24, 2011)

Mr. Stride, who was licensed in 1957, was transferred to inactive disability status and until further order of the Court because he was found to be incapacitated from continuing to practice law.

In re ALBERT MAX WANNINGER, Attorney Number 2937697
205 West Randolph Street, Suite 2020
Chicago, Illinois 60606-1893

File Information: M.R 24616, 2011PR00036
(Order entered on July 20, 2011)

Mr. Wanninger, who was licensed in 1970, was suspended on an interim basis and until further order of the Court. He pled guilty in federal court to willfully filing a false tax return for calendar year 2006, was sentenced to a two-year term of probation, and was also ordered to serve 365 days in home detention with electronic monitoring.