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Author: Jason Supplee

Jason Supplee Jason B. Supplee received his J.D. from the Oklahoma City University School of Law and is licensed in Oklahoma and Texas. Currently, he is an Assistant United States Attorney for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Texas in the Corpus Christi Branch. Previously, he clerked for the Office of General Counsel at the Oklahoma Bar Association.

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Self Reporting

A lawyer's duty to self-report disciplinary misconduct

February 01, 2018

The central theme for this article is Oklahoma’s Rules Governing Disciplinary Proceedings (RGDP) 7.7(a), which revolves around lawyer misconduct received in other jurisdictions and the duty to self-report. This article takes a deeper look into a rule that is not tested on the bar exam, yet looms over every Oklahoma licensed attorney (reciprocity or not), and also has a time frame for compliance.