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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 2, 2020

The Tennessee Supreme Court today suspended the law license of Morristown attorney Douglas Ralph Beier for two years. The court held that Beier made false representations in a child custody case, exploited a client with a disability in an estate case, and engaged in dishonest conduct in order to get an exorbitant fee from an estate. The Board of Professional Responsibility (BPR) originally recommended a three-month active suspension followed by 21 months of probation. The chancery court ruled that the discipline should be increased to two years of active suspension. The Supreme Court agreed with the chancery court and rejected the probation time. The court pointed to the seriousness of the breach of ethics rules and the fact that Beier refused to acknowledge the wrongfulness of his conduct as reasoning for its decision. Read the BPR release.