IN RE: DEDRICK ARVELL MOORE (2024)

Joint petition for consent discipline accepted. See per curiam.

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Supreme Court of Louisiana April 09, 2024

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA

NO. 2023-B-1689

IN RE: DEDRICK ARVELL MOORE

ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING

PER CURIAM

The Office of Disciplinary Counsel (“ODC”) commenced an investigation into allegations that respondent neglected two of a client's legal matters, failed to communicate with the client, failed to reduce a contingency fee agreement to writing, failed to deposit the client's settlement check into his client trust account, and failed to disburse $1,500 owed to the client. Following the filing of formal charges, respondent and the ODC submitted a joint petition for consent discipline. Having reviewed the petition,

IT IS ORDERED that the Petition for Consent Discipline be accepted and that Dedrick Arvell Moore, Louisiana Bar Roll number 30329, be and he hereby is suspended from the practice of law for a period of one year and one day. The entirety of this suspension shall be deferred, subject to respondent's successful completion of a one-year period of unsupervised probation. It is further ordered that respondent shall attend the Louisiana State Bar Association's Trust Accounting School during the probationary

period. The probationary period shall commence from the date respondent and the ODC execute a formal probation plan. Any failure of respondent to comply with the conditions of probation, or any misconduct during the probationary period, may be grounds for making the deferred suspension executory, or imposing additional discipline, as appropriate.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that all costs and expenses in the matter are assessed against respondent in accordance with Supreme Court Rule XIX, § 10.1, with legal interest to commence thirty days from the date of finality of this court's judgment until paid.

Genovese, J., dissents and would reject the proposed discipline as too lenient.