IN RE: REINSTATEMENT OF Charles C. LOBELLO (2018)

ORDER OF REINSTATEMENT

This is an automatic review of a Southern Nevada Disciplinary Board hearing panel's recommendation to grant suspended attorney Charles C. Lobello's petition for reinstatement.

This court suspended Lobello from the practice of law for four years, retroactive to July 29, 2013, and required that he pay the costs of the disciplinary proceeding. In re Discipline of Lobello. Docket No. 69779 (Order Approving Conditional Guilty Plea, April 22, 2016). The panel that heard Lobello's petition for reinstatement found he had paid those costs and completed the four-year suspension. Thus, as Lobello complied with the terms and conditions of the prior disciplinary order, and testimony by Lobello and three other witnesses supported Lobello's petition, the panel recommended that Lobello be reinstated to the practice of law in Nevada.

Based on our de novo review, we agree with the panel's conclusions that Lobello has satisfied his burden in seeking reinstatement by clear and convincing evidence. See SCR 116(2) (requiring an attorney to demonstrate by “clear and convincing evidence that he or she has the moral qualifications, competency, and learning in law required for admission to practice law in this state” and that the attorney's “resumption of the practice of law will not be detrimental to the integrity and standing of the bar, to the administration of justice, or to the public interest”); Application of Wright, 75 Nev. 111, 112-13, 335 P.2d 609, 610 (1959) (reviewing a petition of reinstatement de novo). We therefore approve the panel's recommendation that the petition be granted.

Accordingly, Charles C. Lobello is hereby reinstated to the practice of law in Nevada. Lobello shall pay the costs of the reinstatement proceeding, excluding bar counsel and staff salaries, within 30 days of this order. See SCR 120.

It is so ORDERED.