In Re: Discipline of Brent Blanchard ( 2015 )

company solely owned and operated by Blanchard in order to purchase a residential property in which the client would live and failing to ensure that the family trust's interest in the property was recorded and protected. The agreement provides for a three-year suspension. As preconditions to an application for reinstatement, Blanchard agreed to: (1) comply with any and all outstanding CLE requirements and pay any outstanding fees owed, (2) attend and complete an additional 15 hours of CLE in ethics, (3) retake and pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam, (4) report this matter to the Utah State Bar forthwith, (5) immediately execute a quitclaim deed for 2968 Mt. Hope Drive in Las Vegas, Nevada on behalf of the Rhodes Family Trust and comply with any and all efforts of Helen Rhodes or her designee to return the property to the Rhodes Family Trust, (6) comply with Judge Kishner's order that he pay $6,237 in fees and $158.61 in costs incurred in case number A-14-702869-C in the Eighth Judicial District Court, (7) continue treatment for depression and provide satisfactory proof from the Nevada Lawyer Assistance Program that he is mentally capable of resuming the practice of law, and (8) pay the costs of the disciplinary proceedings (excluding bar counsel and staff salaries). Based on our review of the record, we conclude that the guilty plea agreement should be approved. See SCR 113(1). We hereby impose a three-year suspension to commence from the date of this order. Given the length of the suspension, Blanchard must petition for reinstatement. SCR 116(1). Blanchard shall comply with all of the conditions in the plea agreement before petitioning for reinstatement. The parties shall comply with the relevant provisions of SCR 115 and 121.1. It is so ORDERED. SUPREME COURT OF NEVADA 2 114) 1947A matt. ic'L'e."72‘1 , C.J. Hardesty , J. Parraguj Gibbons DOUGLAS and SAITTA, JJ., dissenting: We would reject the conditional guilty plea agreement because the agreed-upon discipline is not sufficient. In our view, a four-year suspension would be more appropriate considering the relevant factors. J. Douglas Saitta cc: Chair, Southern Nevada Disciplinary Board Brent A. Blanchard Stan Hunterton, Bar Counsel, State Bar of Nevada Kimberly K. Farmer, Executive Director, State Bar of Nevada Perry Thompson, Admissions Office, United States Supreme Court SUPREME COURT OF NEVADA 3 10) '94Th