What is the standard of conduct of a lawyer who has been found guilty of misconduct in two separate disciplinary proceedings?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Levin v. State Bar, 255 Cal.Rptr. 422, 47 Cal.3d 1140, 767 P.2d 689 (Cal. 1989):
15 If two or more acts of professional misconduct are found or acknowledged in a single disciplinary hearing, the standards provide that the sanction to be imposed should not be cumulative but should instead be the more severe of the different applicable sanctions. (Standards, std. 1.6(a).) Because these matters were consolidated and we have yet to impose discipline in either case, we must view these proceedings as a single disciplinary hearing for the purpose of considering increased discipline. (See Natali v. State Bar (1988) 45 Cal.3d 456, 468-469, 247 Cal.Rptr. 165, 754 P.2d 211.)
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