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Transfer to Disability Inactive Status • Oneonta attorney Harold Jerome Colley was transferred to disability inactive status pursuant to Rule 27(c), Ala. R. Disc. P., effective November 23, 2010, by order of the Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar. [Rule 27(c), Pet. No. 10-1819]
Disbarment • Birmingham attorney Jacob Calvin Swygert, Jr. was disbarred from the practice of law in Alabama, effective October 19, 2010, by order of the Supreme Court of Alabama. The supreme court entered its order based upon the October 19, 2010 order of Panel II of the Disciplinary Board of the Alabama State Bar. In ASB No. 09-1039(A), Swygert was determined to be guilty of violating rules 1.3, 1.15(a), 1.15(b), 1.15(d) 1.15(e), 4.1(a), 8.1(b), 8.4(a), 8.4(c), and 8.4 (g), Alabama Rules of Professional Conduct. According to the formal charges, in or around January 2008, Swygert signed a letter of protection to a chiropractic center on behalf of a client. Swygert subsequently settled the case in June 2008 and withheld funds from the client to pay the chiropractic center. Swygert failed to contact the chiropractic center and failed to honor the letter of protection. Swygert subsequently failed or refused to provide a response to the Office of General Counsel of the Alabama State Bar regarding this matter. In ASB No. 09-2552(A), Swygert was determined to be guilty of violating rules 1.3, 1.4(a) and (b), 8.1(b), and 8.4(a) and (g), Ala. R. Prof. C. According to the formal charges, in or around December 2006, Swygert was retained to represent a client in a wrongful death suit after the client’s daughter was killed in an automobile accident. Swygert advised the client that he had
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