SAN FRANCISCO (Northern California Record) — Suspended Riverside attorney Connie Lee Younger faces possible disbarment following a recently announced California State Bar Court recommendation after she allegedly failed to comply conditions of a disciplinary probation.
Younger failed to submit quarterly reports, a final client funds report and proof that she attended ethics and client trust accounting schools, according to the seven-page decision and order of involuntary inactive enrollment issued Sept. 24 by the state bar court.
Other investigations or disciplinary charges are pending against Younger, according to the decision and order.
Younger's recommended discipline was among the dispositions filed earlier this month by the state bar court's hearing department for September.
The state bar court's recommendation included an involuntary inactive enrollment order that rendered Younger involuntarily enrolled as an inactive member of the State Bar of California. That order was effective three calendar days after service, according to the recommendation.
Younger failed to participate in person or via counsel and state bar's decision and order for disbarment was entered by default. In such cases, in which an attorney fails to participate in a State Bar of California disciplinary proceeding despite adequate notice and opportunity, the bar invokes Rule 5.85, which provides the procedure for the state bar to recommend an attorney's disbarment.
The state bar's entry for default was entered in March.
The state bar's recommendation is pending final action by the California Supreme Court, an appeal before the state bar's review department or expiration of time in which parties may request further review within the state bar court.
Younger was admitted to the bar in California on Feb. 10, 2003, according to her profile at the state bar website.
In the previous discipline handed down in April 2015, Younger, then 61, was suspended for a year and placed on two years probation after she allegedly failed to promptly pay $5,000 in settlement funds to a client, according to information on her state bar profile. Younger "she felt she was owed for uncompensated work she had done on an earlier case for the client," her state bar profile said.
Under the terms of that discipline, Younger remained suspended until she made restitution to her former client.