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TO BE PUBLISHED


V. IN SUPREME COURT
JAMES PAUL TRIONA
RESPONDENT
ORDER
Pursuant to SCR 3.669(3),
this matter comes before the Court upon request of the Kentucky Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Commission concerning a deficit in mandatory CLE credits by James Paul Triona for the year ending June 30, 1999. Based upon this deficit, the CLE Commission requests that this Court impose sanctions upon Mr. Triona pursuant to SCR 3.669(4).

Mr. Triona, whose last known business address is 119 E. Court Street, Suite 402, Cincinnati, Ohio, has practiced law in Ohio for twenty-one years and in Kentucky for almost nine years. He claims that he has had no other disciplinary complaints of any nature against him in either state. He acknowledges that he did not meet the CLE requirements for the educational year ending June 30, 1999.
The Commission sent Mr. Triona no less than four notices regarding the delinquency. Mr. Triona requested a non-hardship time extension pursuant to SCR 3.667(2),
which was denied by the Commission. The Commission claims that Mr.

Triona was not eligible for a non-hardship extension because he had received one the
previous year.
Mr. Triona attended CLE programming in July and August 1999. He earned sufficient CLE credit at those programs to cure his deficiency for the educational year ending June 30, 1999.
Thereafter, on November 30, 1999, Mr. Triona was sent notice of the Motion for Entry of Show Cause, which had been filed by the Commission with this Court on the same day. On December 6, 1999, Mr. Triona filed a Response on December 21, 1999. In the Response, Mr. Triona stated that, in December 1997, he had practiced twenty years in a large law firm when his firm

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