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Deborah Crouse Cobb

Crouse Cobb & Bays
515 W Main St
Collinsville, Illinois 62234-3020

(618) 344-6300

debcrousecobb@gmail.com

Date Admitted

May 10, 1984

Illinois Registration Status

Active and authorized to practice law

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In re Cobb, Deborah Crouse, 2016PR00066
Disposition Suspension for a specified period
Effective Date of Disposition 06/14/2018
End Date of Disposition 08/13/2018
Definition of Disposition Suspension for a specified period reflects a determination that the lawyer has engaged in misconduct and that the misconduct warrants an interruption of the lawyer's authority to practice law during the suspension period, which is a fixed period of time identified in the Supreme Court's order. The lawyer is not authorized to practice law during the period of the suspension.
Case Summary Ms. Cobb, who was licensed in 1984, was suspended for sixty days. She did not provide competent representation to clients in an adoption case. Specifically, she failed to obtain reports of the clients' psychological evaluations or discuss those evaluations with her clients, even though she expected the evaluations to be a subject of the court proceeding. She also had a conflict of interest due to her business and personal relationship with the adoption agency involved in the case, failed to adequately explain the nature of the conflict to her clients, and failed to withdraw from representing the clients when her continued representation would result in her representing them while she had a conflict of interest. The suspension is effective on June 14, 2018.
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