Opinion

State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Bolusky

  • 72 O.B.A.J. 832
  • 23 P.3d 268
  • 2001 OK 26
  • 2001 Okla. LEXIS 28
  • 2001 WL 243374
Court
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Filed
Mar 13, 2001
Status
Published
Author
Watt
On the bench
Summers, Hargrave, Hodges, Lavender, Opala, Kauger, Boudreau, Winchester, Watt
Cited by
80 cases

explaining that a lawyer should not lie to a client about the status of his or her case under a rule identical to MRPC 8.4(c)

How later courts described this case

  • explaining that a lawyer should not lie to a client about the status of his or her case under a rule identical to MRPC 8.4(c)
  • attorney suspended for misrepresenting status of client’s case
  • client is not a “third person” within meaning of Rule 4.1

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

WATT, V.C.J.,

dissenting.

T1 I would disbar this Respondent from the practice of law.

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