(Reuters) - A practice leader at the small law firm Paley Rothman was admonished by Washington, D.C., attorney conduct regulators for neglecting a client in 2020 amid a broader flood of matters tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a public notice released on Monday.
James Hammerschmidt, co-president of the Washington, D.C.-area firm and head of its employment practice, did not contest an ethics claim that he failed to act with due diligence in advising a client amid their workplace dispute with the International Monetary Fund.
Informal admonition is the least severe sanction a lawyer can face in Washington, D.C., for violating a rule governing attorney conduct.
Hammerschmidt did not immediately return messages on Monday seeking comment. The head of the D.C. office of attorney discipline, Hamilton Fox III, declined to comment.
In the matter at the heart of the admonition, Hammerschmidt was hired in January 2020 to represent an unidentified client involved in an employment dispute with the International Monetary Fund.
The client had worked both at the IMF and World Bank in 2015 and 2016 without disclosing the simultaneous employment, according to the bar counsel's public admonishment notice.
The IMF had imposed a monetary penalty for an alleged violation of rules and policies, and the employee disputed the organization's investigative findings and the sanction, the D.C. bar disciplinary counsel said.
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