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In re Kowalski, Jan R., 2023PR00047

Disposition	Disbarment
Effective Date of Disposition	09/21/2023
End Date of Disposition	No disposition end date scheduled at this time. Discipline continues until further order of the Court.
Definition of Disposition	Disbarment is a determination that the lawyer has engaged in misconduct warranting the most serious sanction. The disbarred lawyer is not authorized to practice law during the period of the disbarment and may not return to the practice of law unless and until he or she has demonstrated his or her rehabilitation, good character, and current knowledge of the law in a subsequent reinstatement case, which may not be filed until five years after the effective date of the disbarment.
Case Summary	Ms. Kowalski, who was licensed in 2007, was disbarred on consent. She was convicted of concealing assets from a bankruptcy trustee when she and her brother made fraudulent representations, claims and promises in her brother's bankruptcy petition and accompanying documents, and when she used her client trust account to conceal from her brother's creditors and the trustee hundreds of thousands of dollars that were part of her brother's bankruptcy estate.

In re Kowalski, Jan R., 2020PR00077

Disposition	Interim suspension until further order of the Court
Effective Date of Disposition	02/26/2021
End Date of Disposition
Definition of Disposition	An interim suspension reflects the determination of the Supreme Court that a lawyer should be suspended from the practice of law. In imposing interim suspension, the Court orders that the lawyer be suspended until further order of the Court and may impose such conditions as the Court deems necessary. The lawyer is not authorized to practice law during the period of the interim suspension. The Court may terminate the interim suspension upon imposition of final discipline or under other circumstances as the Supreme Court deems just.
Case Summary	Ms. Kowalski, who was licensed in 2007, was suspended on an interim basis and until further order of the Court. Ms. Kowalski, along with five other defendants, including her brother, attorney Robert Michael Kowalski, was the subject of an eighteen-count second superseding indictment which charged that Ms. Kowalski committed the offense of bankruptcy fraud when she and her brother, as part of a scheme to defraud, made false representations in documents filed in her brother’s bankruptcy case, and when she used her client trust account to conceal hundreds of thousands of dollars from her brother’s creditors and the bankruptcy trustee.

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Jan R. Kowalski

Public Record of Discipline and Pending Proceedings