Claude Roxborough

DCCA Order (May 8, 1997)

Summary: The court suspended Roxborough for 60 days, nunc pro tunc to the date of completion of Roxborough's suspension in In re Roxborough, 675 A.2d 950 (D.C. 1996), with the requirement that he demonstrate fitness to practice law and complete a course on the Rules of Professional Responsibility prior to reinstatement. The court found that Roxborough engaged in an unauthorized communication with an adverse party represented by counsel, represented clients with adverse positions, creating an actual conflict of interest, misused client confidences, and failed to manage a nonlawyer assistant in a reasonable manner, to mitigate improper conduct of a nonlawyer assistant or to withdraw from a representation when discharged.

Board Report and Orders (July 23, 1996)

Summary: The board recommends that Roxborough be suspended for sixty days, with the requirement that he demonstrate fitness to practice law prior to reinstatement, for engaging in unauthorized communication with a party represented by counsel, violating the conflict-of-interest rules by representing adverse parties, disclosing confidences of a client without consent, failing to supervise an investigator who engaged in an act of overreaching, and continuing to represent a client after being discharged.