TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 15, 2016

Williamson County lawyer John Jay Clark was disbarred by the state Supreme Court yesterday. The court took the action based on five complaints. In two cases, the court found that Clark abandoned his clients. In a third case, the court found that Clark obtained a default judgment in a divorce, but failed to file an order memorializing the default and failed to get a final decree. In a fourth case, Clark never filed divorce documents with the court and misrepresented the status of the case to his client. In a fifth and final case, the court found that Clark sent his client a divorce decree on which he forged the signature of the judge. The court also noted that Clark was suspended from the practice of law while representing some of these clients. A previous four-year suspension imposed in 2015 remains in effect.