Opinion
S278922
07-12-2023
DERIEG ON DISCIPLINE
Remanded to State Bar
Pursuant to California Rules of Court, rule 9.17, the court remands this matter to the State Bar Court to reconsider whether respondent GEORGE MARTIN DERIEG may be culpable of violations of Business and Professions Code section 6068, subdivision (a) based solely on his predicate violations of Probate Code sections 10830 and 10831, which, by their terms, are not disciplinable offenses under the State Bar Act (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 6000 et seq.). (In the Matter of Lilley (Review Dept. 1991) 1 Cal. State Bar Ct. Rptr. 476 [“[S]ection 6068[, subdivision] (a) [serves] as a conduit by which attorneys may be charged and disciplined for violations of other specific laws which are not otherwise made disciplinable under the State Bar Act.”].)