WI · rules
SCR 12.01
Attorney’s death or disappearance without compliance with license suspension or revocation order
If an attorney whose license is suspended or revoked disappears
or dies and has failed to comply with SCR 22.26 and no partner,
personal representative or other responsible party capable of
conducting the attorney's affairs is known to exist, a judge of a court of
record in a county in which the attorney maintained an office shall
appoint an attorney to enter the former offices of the attorney or other
location as may be necessary for the sole purpose of protecting clients'
rights, files and property and delivering the files and property to the
clients or to their successor counsel. The appointed attorney may be
compensated in an amount approved by the judge out of the assets of
the attorney who has disappeared or died.
Provenance
- Source
- www.wicourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23
- Edition
- 2026-09-23
- Content hash
2567308359bd8646b73f98e1b8bc63f8da8e709f7630d1e8e3283b069d83044e
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