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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA NO. 98-B-0207 IN RE: ADAIR D. JONES DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS PER CURIAM* This disciplinary matter arises from one count of formal charges filed by the Office of Disciplinary Counsel ("ODC") against respondent, Adair D. Jones, an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Louisiana. The record indicates that respondent became ineligible to practice law on January 8, 1993 for failure to comply with

mandatory CLE requirements.

He was also placed on ineligibility

status on September 6, 1995 for failure to pay his bar dues. The unauthorized instant practice charges of law arise by from two instances he was of on

respondent

while

ineligible status.

The first instance arose from the introduction

of a deposition in Linda Ratcliff v. Dr. Robert Anderson, No. 397246, 19th JDC for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, taken on April 15, 1996 by the respondent while he was ineligible to practice. Since respondent had already been admonished for engaging in the unauthorized practice of law in the Ratcliff litigation,1 Judge Michael McDonald, the presiding judge, immediately forwarded

correspondence to the ODC enclosing a copy of the deposition. The second instance arose from respondent's filing of a

*

Lemmon, J. not on panel.

Rule IV, Part 2,

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