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01/29/2010 "See News Release 007 for any Concurrences and/or Dissents."

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA NO. 09-B-2203 IN RE: VINCENT C. COFIELD

ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS

PER CURIAM
This disciplinary matter arises from formal charges filed by the Office of Disciplinary Counsel ("ODC") against respondent, Vincent C. Cofield, a disbarred attorney. For the reasons that follow, we now permanently disbar respondent.

PRIOR DISCIPLINARY HISTORY Before we address the current charges, we find it helpful to review respondent's prior disciplinary history. After being admitted to the practice of law in Louisiana in 1986, respondent's first disciplinary infraction occurred in November 1999, when he was admonished by the disciplinary board for neglecting a legal matter. In 2004, the ODC filed a motion with this court requesting that respondent be placed on interim suspension for threat of harm pursuant to Supreme Court Rule XIX,

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