IN RE: DISCIPLINE OF VLADIMIR GAGIC (2023)

ORDER IMPOSING RECIPROCAL DISCIPLINE AND SUSPENDING ATTORNEY

This is a petition under SCR 114 to reciprocally discipline attorney Vladimir Gagic based on his one-year suspension from the practice of law in Arizona for violating SCR 79, RPC 3.5(d) (decorum of the tribunal), RPC 8.2(a) (judicial and legal officials), and RPC 8.4(d) (misconduct). The Supreme Court of Arizona affirmed the suspension concluding that Gagic violated the above-listed rules when he made a significant number of unprofessional, insulting, or false comments in writing regarding three different judges and an opposing counsel. Gagic has not responded to the SCR 114 petition.

Under SCR 114(4), this court must impose identical reciprocal discipline unless the attorney demonstrates or this court determines that (1) the other jurisdiction failed to provide adequate notice, (2) the other jurisdiction imposed discipline despite a lack of proof of misconduct, (3) the established misconduct warrants substantially different discipline in this jurisdiction, or (4) the established misconduct does not constitute misconduct under Nevada's professional conduct rules. None of these exceptions apply here, and “[i]n all other respects, a final adjudication in another jurisdiction that an attorney has engaged in misconduct conclusively establishes the misconduct for the purposes of a disciplinary proceeding in this state” SCR 114(5).

Accordingly, we grant the petition for reciprocal discipline and hereby suspend Vladimir Gagic from the practice of law in Nevada for one year starting from the date of this order. Gagic and the State Bar shall comply with SCR 115 and SCR 121.1.

It is so ORDERED.

Stiglich, C.J.

Cadish, J.

Herndon, J.

Parraguirre, J.

Pickering, J.

Lee, J.

Bell, J.