Kenneth Ward, Esquire | SUSPENDED

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

On this date in the Gar­den State, the New Jer­sey Attor­ney Dis­ci­pline Review Board (the DRB) sus­pended Ken­neth S. Ward, Esquire [#102091] for one year on April 8, 2008 as a result of rec­i­p­ro­cal dis­ci­pline in the State of Mary­land, includ­ing lack of dili­gence and gross neglect in three cases, fail­ing to com­mu­ni­cate with clients, attempt­ing to col­lect an unrea­son­able fee from two clients, allow­ing a default judg­ment to be entered against a client, mis­rep­re­sent­ing to a client the sta­tus of the civil case, improp­erly direct­ing his sec­re­tary to nota­rize a doc­u­ment and mis­rep­re­sent­ing to a court that there were no pend­ing dis­ci­pli­nary mat­ters against him.

Richard J. Engel­hardt, Esquire appeared before the DRB for the New Jer­sey Office of Attor­ney Ethics (the OAE).

Ken­neth failed to appear. Per­haps he was too busy grossly neglect­ing his clients and attempt­ing to col­lect unrea­son­able fees?

Were any of Kenneth’s clients injured as a con­se­quence of his mis­con­duct in this or the under­ly­ing mat­ter? Was resti­tu­tion ordered? Paid?

Have there been other instances of mis­con­duct by Mis­ter Ward that haven’t been addressed by the DRB?