IN RE: Amy Marie PARKER (2025)

ORDER

On April 25, 2014, Petitioner was placed on administrative suspension for failing to comply with annual CLE requirements. See In re Admin. Suspensions for Failure to Comply with Continuing Legal Educ. Requirements, S.C. Sup. Ct. Order dated Apr. 25, 2014. Petitioner later entered into a consent agreement for discipline with the Office of Disciplinary Counsel in which she admitted misconduct and consented to a three-year definite suspension or disbarment with conditions. On November 16, 2016, this Court accepted the agreement, disbarred Petitioner, retroactive to June 2013, the date of her interim suspension, and set forth a number of pre-conditions to any future readmission. See In the Matter of Amy M. Parker, 418 S.C. 376, 793 S.E.2d 302 (2016).

Petitioner has now filed a petition for readmission pursuant to Rule 33(f), RLDE, Rule 413, SCACR, which this Court referred to the Committee on Character and Fitness (the Committee). The Committee considered the issue of lifting Petitioner's administrative suspension concurrently with her petition. Following a hearing, the Committee issued a report recommending Petitioner's suspension be lifted and that she be readmitted with the following conditions: (1) a two-year contract with Lawyers Helping Lawyers or continued treatment with a therapist for two years and submission of quarterly reports from either or both to the Commission on Lawyer Conduct (the Commission); and (2) retention of a trust accountant to conduct monthly reconciliations, which should be submitted to the Commission, for a period of two years from the time Petitioner begins work as a sole practitioner. After careful consideration, the petition is granted, subject to the aforementioned conditions, and Petitioner is reinstated as a regular member of the South Carolina Bar. Alternatively, if Petitioner obtains employment as an attorney in a firm, agency, or other office, rather than returning to solo practice as contemplated by condition (2), Petitioner must secure a designated supervising attorney for a period of two years from the date of her return to practice. Additionally, because Petitioner has fulfilled all outstanding CLE requirements, her 2013 administrative suspension is now lifted.

s/ John W. Kittredge, C.J.

s/ John Cannon Few, J.

s/ George C. James, Jr., J.

s/ D. Garrison Hill, J.

s/ Letitia H. Verdin, J.