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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA NO. 99-B-0609 IN RE: JAMES M. BANKS, JR. ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS

PER CURIAM*
This attorney disciplinary proceeding arises from formal charges instituted by the Office of Disciplinary Counsel ("ODC") against respondent, James M. Banks, Jr., an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Louisiana. Both the hearing committee and the disciplinary board recommended respondent be disbarred from the practice of law. For the reasons assigned, we now adopt that recommendation.

UNDERLYING FACTS The ODC filed three separate sets of formal charges in this matter, consisting of a total of thirteen counts of misconduct.1 For the sake of clarity, these charges will be referred to by their disciplinary board numbers: 96-DB-060 (seven counts), 97-DB-013 (three counts) and 97-DB-064 (three counts). 96-DB-060 Count I of these formal charges alleges that on April 8, 1994, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana found respondent to be in criminal contempt of court due to his failure to attend a November 24, 1993 hearing in the matter entitled United States v. T.R., A Male Juvenile, No. 93-453. As a result, the federal court suspended respondent from practice in the Eastern District of Louisiana, and it later disbarred him when he failed to file an answer

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Johnson, J. not on panel. Rule IV, Part II,

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