(1) Catherine P. Dean. Dean was charged with misconduct and was found to have commited six violations. Dean failed to on two ocassions to complete a guardianship case (but she did take $500 from the client); Dean failed to keep the clients informed and avoided contact with them.
UPDATE 3/3/15. Dean has left the OCSE and is now a part-time deputy prosecuting attorney in Mississippi County. Let's hope she can handle the work load there, she sure had issues with that at OSCE. link to her new job
Dean Documents: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6bAeBjaZ__rSTI0aF9NQlE1Zzg/edit?usp=sharing
(2) Mark L. Ross. Ross was charged with misconduct and was found to have overdrawn three separate bank trust accounts on the IOLTA attorney trust. These type of accounts are only for funds that belong to a client and are not the attorneys own funds (hence the separate account).
(3) Susan G. Jones. Jones was charged with misconduct and was found to have commited three violations. Jones took $440 to handle a divorce proceeding and avoided contact with the client for about seven months. Jones finally did what she had been paid for after the client threatened to take action against her.
Jones Documents: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6bAeBjaZ__rRjNqUXUxWDBEWmM/edit?usp=sharing
Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct:
https://courts.arkansas.gov/rules-and-administrative-orders/%5Bcurrent%5D-arkansas-rules-of-professional-conduct
You can check to see if any attorney in Arkansas has been investigated and found to have committed an infraction at this site:
https://courts.arkansas.gov/administration/professional-conduct/opinions
