Ethics
Lawyer suspended for attempting to attend 2 on-line CLE packages directly
In accordance with a Sept. 11 sanctions order, a Connecticut lawyer was attempting to get credit score for 2 reside webcasts that occurred on the similar time on June 16, 2022. Picture from Shutterstock.
A lawyer’s Maine regulation license has been suspended after he tried to get persevering with authorized training credit score for attending on-line packages that occurred on the similar time.
The lawyer, Jason R. Buckley of Bloomfield, Connecticut, was suspended for a yr because of an order by a justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Courtroom, the Legal Profession Blog stories. He should search courtroom approval for reinstatement.
The allegations had been deemed to be admitted after Buckley defaulted within the ethics case.
In accordance with the Sept. 11 sanctions order, Buckley had submitted proof of CLE credit in 2023 to reinstate his regulation license after an administrative suspension. The fabric confirmed that Buckley was attempting to get credit score for 2 reside webcasts that occurred on the similar time on June 16, 2022.
Buckley stated in an preliminary response he had attended the 2 packages utilizing a pc and an iPad. He stated he didn’t understand that simultaneous attendance was a violation of bar guidelines.
The bar counsel later acquired extra info that, on June 17, 2022, Buckley attended a four-hour-and-40-minute webcast that started at 12:39 p.m. and considered an on-demand six-hour-and-39-minute CLE that started at 1:06 p.m.
The order by Justice Thomas McKeon of the Maine Supreme Judicial Courtroom cited an earlier case wherein a lawyer received a one-year suspension for counting on his assistant to take his CLE courses.
The Connecticut Judicial Department exhibits {that a} lawyer named Jason Russell Buckley has an workplace in Bloomfield, Connecticut, at Bondi Band, a fashionable headband company based by Rebecca Buckley.
The ABA Journal left a voicemail in search of remark after calling the posted quantity. There was no speedy response.
