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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 21, 2020

Carroll County lawyer Benjamin Dempsey was suspended today for five years, with three years to be served on active suspension and the remainder on probation. The Tennessee Supreme Court reports that Dempsey entered an Alford plea and was convicted of the Class B misdemeanor offense of simple assault by offensive touching. In another matter, he was suspended for three years by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Tennessee for misappropriating funds, engaging in improper trust accounting, making misrepresentations to his client and the court, and failing to refund fees to his client in a timely manner. Dempsey admitted violating Rules of Professional Conduct 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.15, 1.16, 3.4, 5.3 and 8.4(a), (b), (c) and (d).