BODA MEMBERS 2018-2019 Robert A. Black Chair of the Board of Disciplinary Appeals, 2018-2019
IN THE YEAR OF 2019, OUT OF 1,458 COMPLAINTS, BODA DECIDED 28 (per pg 1 BODA 2018-2019 Report) CASES RESULTING IN FINAL JUDGMENTS OF DISCIPLINE OR DISABILITY. FINANCIALS SHOW EXPENDITURE OF $622,646, SO THE NET COST PER CASE DECIDED IS $22,237.
The Board of Disciplinary Appeals Appointed by the Supreme Court of Texas 2018-2019 MEMBERS Jeanne C. “Cezy” Collins, El Paso David M. González, Austin Mike Gregory, Denton Michael C. Gross, San Antonio Kelli M. Hinson, Dallas Roland K. Johnson, Fort Worth Kathy Kinser, Dallas Mike Mills, McAllen Deborah Pullum, Tyler Nancy J. Stone, Amarillo SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS LIAISON The Honorable Justice Debra H. Lehrmann STAFF Christine E. McKeeman, Executive Director/General Counsel Gayle Vickers, Deputy Director/Counsel Jackie L. Truitt, Executive Assistant
BODA MEMBERS 2017–2018--- DAVID N. KITNER, CHAIR, IS A PARTNER IN CLARK HILL STRASBURGER IN DALLAS, TEXAS.
IN THE YEAR OF 2018, OUT OF 1,444 COMPLAINTS, BODA DECIDED 34 CASES RESULTING IN FINAL JUDGMENTS OF DISCIPLINE OR DISABILITY (2.3%). FINANCIALS SHOW EXPENDITURE OF $574K, SO THE NET COST PER CASE DECIDED IS $16,900. https://lawsintexas.com/txboda-org-has-released-its-2018-annual-report-and-we-have-a-copy/is
- RAMON L. ECHEVARRIA II, VICE CHAIR, IS COUNSEL FOR THE EXXONMOBIL LAW DEPARTMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY SECTION IN HOUSTON.
- ROBERT A. BLACK WAS APPOINTED TO BODA IN SEPTEMBER 2013 AND REAPPOINTED TO A SECOND TERM IN 2016. HE IS MANAGING SHAREHOLDER OF MEHAFFY WEBER, P.C., WHERE HE PRACTICES MEDIATION, ARBITRATION, AND CIVIL LITIGATION.
Marvin W. Jones has served as Chair of the Board of Disciplinary Appeals, and IS MAINLY RESPONSIBLE for maladministering SBOT's Dysfunctional Grievance Process. For the last six (6) years, he has lamely allowed for tens of thousands of Grievance Complainants to be DENIED & DISMISSED valid Grievances and DEPRIVED THEM of any EXPLANATIONS and AMENDMENT RIGHTS accorded Complainants by The Supreme Court of Texas. Even worse, Chair Marvin Jones has allowed for tens of thousands of Respondents to go undisciplined and has hidden evidence of wrongdoing in "secret" CLOSED FILES that BODA has WRONGFULLY "determined" as CONFIDENTIAL!
I have attached a letter I received from Chair Marvin Jones recently. Apparently, Mr. Jones believes he can just hand off all the problems of a large Class Action Lawsuit against SBOT to his successor, David N. Kitner. (I must assume that Chair Jones has no SPELLING CHECKER ON HIS WORD PROCESSOR! I circled his misspellings and sent the letter back to him.)
I have attached a letter I received from Chair Marvin Jones recently. Apparently, Mr. Jones believes he can just hand off all the problems of a large Class Action Lawsuit against SBOT to his successor, David N. Kitner. (I must assume that Chair Jones has no SPELLING CHECKER ON HIS WORD PROCESSOR! I circled his misspellings and sent the letter back to him.)
Photo above: Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht with General Counsel for The Supreme Court of Texas, Nina Hess Hsu.
Nina Hess Hsu's prior experience as a novice lawyer was limited to an insurance company, Texas Mutual Insurance, and also Vinson & Elkins, a legal firm which offers work to lawyer "partners." When Jen McCarty,(whose Bar Card #24065703 is currently - March 16th, 2016 - in suspense) - the prior Supreme Court General Counsel, took a "lateral opportunity," at Vinson & Elkins, in Houston, and, abruptly, Nina Hess Hsu took Jen McCarty's place as General Counsel in 2011. The chaos of the dysfunctional grievance process was "inherited" by Nina Hess Hsu but she has never made a single step to relieve the humiliation of The Supreme Court and disrespect for the legal profession in Texas that results from the State Bar grievance process.
I have joined a multitude of Complainants and, also, a great number of active attorneys in calling for an END to the State Bar's misadministration of the dysfunctional grievance process, largely a creation of State Bar officials like Linda Acevedo, who joined the State Bar in 1985 and was promoted to General Counsel February 4th, 2009, Jennifer A. Hasley (#00792818) who left the State Bar in 2006 to form her own law firm (Hasley Scarano) which does a brisk business in defending Texas attorneys against Grievances filed by Texans against attorneys, and also BODA staff, like Christine E. McKeeman(# 16174500), Gayle Riley Vickers,(16926700), and Jackie Truitt, (no bar card number), who according to www.txboda.org "has primary responsibility for classification appeals from intake through disposition!"
I have joined a multitude of Complainants and, also, a great number of active attorneys in calling for an END to the State Bar's misadministration of the dysfunctional grievance process, largely a creation of State Bar officials like Linda Acevedo, who joined the State Bar in 1985 and was promoted to General Counsel February 4th, 2009, Jennifer A. Hasley (#00792818) who left the State Bar in 2006 to form her own law firm (Hasley Scarano) which does a brisk business in defending Texas attorneys against Grievances filed by Texans against attorneys, and also BODA staff, like Christine E. McKeeman(# 16174500), Gayle Riley Vickers,(16926700), and Jackie Truitt, (no bar card number), who according to www.txboda.org "has primary responsibility for classification appeals from intake through disposition!"
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Above: Jennifer A. Hasley, who left her job as Assistant Disciplinary Counsel in the Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel in 2006 to form her own firm to defend Texas Attorneys who have Grievances filed against them by Complainants. Left:Jen McCarty who left her job as General Counsel of The Supreme Court of Texas in 2011 when Nina Hess Hsu, a fledgling attorney, "TOOK HER PLACE."
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Linda Acevedo (#00829825), Chief Counsel, who has been in charge of the dysfunctional Grievance Process since February 4th, 2011 but NEVER RESPONDS to any DEMANDS for information. Claire Mock, (#2406772) spokeswoman for the Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel gives nonsensical "responses" to all that the State Bar CANNOT divulge information unless a Grievance ends in a Public Sanction to a Texas Attorney!
Nina Hess Hsu, #24047749, General Counsel for The Supreme Court of Texas, is chiefly responsible for the State Bar of Texas' UNCONSTITUTIONAL, DYSFUNCTIONAL Grievance Process which encourages Misconduct among Texas attorneys who are not disciplined; nor are those Texas attorneys bar cards annotated with Misconduct! While Texas Grievance-Complainants have lost hundreds of millions of dollars due to DENIAL & DISMISSAL of valid Grievances (& DEPRIVATION of Rights to Appeal), and the State Bar of Texas is concealing evidence, indicating the Bar has The Supreme Court's AUTHORIZATION to do so, General Counsel Hess Hsu is so unconcerned with Marc R. Stanley's PETITION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE RELIEF, dated September 29th, 2014 that she "responded" via regular mail on October 1, 2014 with a two sentence letter to Mr. Stanley's concise summary of the dysfunctional Grievance Process.
Perhaps, the puerile General Counsel, Nina Hess Hsu, has "determined" that forcing Maureen E. Ray, a former State Bar of Texas' "Special Administrative Counsel" to give up her bar card on April 10th, 2015 will suffice for the humiliation of the dysfunctional Grievance Process?
Perhaps, the puerile General Counsel, Nina Hess Hsu, has "determined" that forcing Maureen E. Ray, a former State Bar of Texas' "Special Administrative Counsel" to give up her bar card on April 10th, 2015 will suffice for the humiliation of the dysfunctional Grievance Process?
By Order of The Supreme Court of Texas, Maureen E. Ray’s license to practice law in the State of Texas and bar card number was canceled on April 10th, 2015. However, Maureen E. Ray’s multitude of unprofessional and inaccurate decisions which wrongfully deny investigation of Grievances against Texas attorneys remain as an embarrassment to the State Bar of Texas. It is time for The Supreme Court of Texas to fully remove the Texas Grievance Process from the State Bar of Texas and demand a “revisiting” of the many wrongful decisions made by the Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel and Board of Disciplinary Appeals over, at least, the last seven (7) years.
Nina Hess Hsu's brief "dismissal of the notion" that Marc R. Stanley had that The Supreme Court requires the State Bar of Texas to administer a process to DISCIPLINE ATTORNEYS, rather than to EXPUNGE an attorney's records of MISCONDUCT.
The Supreme Court of Texas accepted Maureen Ray's resignation of her Bar Card - in lieu of punishment which she so justly DESERVES!
Some of Maureen E. Ray's absurd assertions are listed below:
On March 17, 2014, I received an alarming letter from Maureen E. Ray, Special Administrative Counsel, Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel, RE: #20136925 Debbie Asbury – Chris McKeeman which gives hearty approval for Christine McKeeman’s continued, disgraceful failure to provide my Grievances which fully document misconduct, malpractice, barratry, and fraud to BODA because (in Ms. Ray’s peculiar viewpoint) there is no requirement in the State Bar rules that Christine E. McKeeman do so.
On August 13th, 2014, Maureen E. Ray made an unprofessional response to the Grievance filed by Marc Stanley, a Board Certified – Civil Trial Lawyer, Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Maureen E. Ray, Special Administrative Counsel, Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel, agreed that the State Bar of Texas was correct in dismissing a Grievance against a Texas attorney who conceded that he committed fraud and theft because he had not (yet) been convicted of any crime relating to the Grievance.
On March 17, 2014, I received an alarming letter from Maureen E. Ray, Special Administrative Counsel, Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel, RE: #20136925 Debbie Asbury – Chris McKeeman which gives hearty approval for Christine McKeeman’s continued, disgraceful failure to provide my Grievances which fully document misconduct, malpractice, barratry, and fraud to BODA because (in Ms. Ray’s peculiar viewpoint) there is no requirement in the State Bar rules that Christine E. McKeeman do so.
On August 13th, 2014, Maureen E. Ray made an unprofessional response to the Grievance filed by Marc Stanley, a Board Certified – Civil Trial Lawyer, Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Maureen E. Ray, Special Administrative Counsel, Office of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel, agreed that the State Bar of Texas was correct in dismissing a Grievance against a Texas attorney who conceded that he committed fraud and theft because he had not (yet) been convicted of any crime relating to the Grievance.
Instead of requiring Catherine N. Wylie, Chair of the Grievance Oversight Committee, (GOC) to bring valid criticisms of the dysfunctional Grievance Process directly to The Supreme Court of Texas, Nina Hess Hsu ignored each and every documented Critique I have Priority Mailed to her (and copied to Chair Wylie). Certainly, General Counsel Hess Hsu can find no VOLUNTEER with integrity to take over the Chair of GOC so she urged The Supreme Court of Texas to reappoint Catherine N. Wylie
Since Catherine N. Wylie, GOC Chair is so WILLING to sit quietly while the integrity of the State Bar has been completely demolished, no doubt it was Nina Hess Hsu who was instrumental in appointing her colleague, Catherine N. Wylie to sit on the Commission for Judicial Conduct, too. Below are examples of the absurd UNSIGNED DENIAL & DISMISSAL Notices of the Commission for Judicial Conduct which exhibit the dishonorable methods of the State Bar of Texas!
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When I was appalled by the UNSIGNED letter I got from the Commission on Judicial Conduct indicating "JUDGES DECISIONS WERE DISCRETIONARY"...I demanded a signature! I have inquired why anyone would need attorneys or judges and courtrooms if all decisions are "discretionary," I have never gotten any response except the absurd letter from Seana Willing (#00787056) at left.