In light of “significant mitigating circumstances,” a public reprimand—rather than anything more severe—is the appropriate sanction for a lawyer who responded to a former client’s negative online reviews by posting “personal and confidential information” about that client, the Georgia Supreme Court held May 19 (In re Skinner, 2014 BL 137684, Ga., No. S14Y0661).
The per curiam ruling is the second opinion in the first Georgia disciplinary case to address a lawyer’s improper disclosure of confidential information on the Internet.
The court previously declined to approve a petition for voluntary discipline under which the lawyer, Margrett A. Skinner, would ...
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