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  • June 07, 2017

    Hearing to Reinstate James M. Schoenecker to Practice Law

    June 7, 2017 – On Tuesday, July 18, 2017, at 9 a.m., a public hearing will be held before Referee James Mohr at the Milwaukee Bar Association, in the Board Room, 424 E. Wells Street, Milwaukee, on the petition of James M. Schoenecker, Elm Grove, to reinstate his Wisconsin law license. Any interested person may appear at the hearing and be heard in support of or in opposition to the petition for reinstatement.

    On July 15, 2011, the Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended Schoenecker’s law license for three years, commencing Aug. 15, 2011, for misconduct violations that included attempting to defraud a client through law firm invoices; engaging in a pattern of attempted and completed thefts from a client's bank accounts, for which he pleaded guilty to one felony count of identity theft; and failing to inform his law firm employer that he had set up his own separate law firm on the side.

    On April 22, 2016, the supreme court suspended Schoenecker’s law license for one year, commencing April 22, 2016, for misconduct violations related to his dishonest business activities as a member of a limited liability company.

    To be reinstated, Schoenecker has the burden of substantiating by clear, satisfactory, and convincing evidence that he has the moral character to practice law in Wisconsin; his resumption of the practice of law will not be detrimental to the administration of justice or subversive of the public interest; all of his representations in his reinstatement petition are substantiated; and he has complied fully with the terms of the orders of suspension and with SCR 22.26.

    Relevant information may be provided to or obtained from Office of Lawyer Regulation (OLR) Assistant Litigation Counsel Julie M. Spoke, 110 E. Main St., Suite 315, Madison, WI 53703. The OLR’s toll-free telephone number is (877) 315-6941. Attorney Spoke’s direct phone is (608) 261-8295.


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