Little Rock – An Arkansas Supreme Court committee has suspended the law license of an Izard County attorney for six months for avoiding a client.
The court’s Committee on Professional Conduct also ordered Stephen L. Lewis to pay $5,600 in restitution and $50 in costs. The committee cited professional misconduct in Lewis’ handling of a case involving damage to a motorcycle damaged while a potential buyer drove it in 2003.
The motorcycle’s owner, Jeremy Smith of Jonesboro, learned that Lewis never filed a lawsuit on his behalf, even though Smith had given the attorney $100 for “fees” in November 2004. Smith says Lewis didn’t return his messages.
Lewis had his law license suspended by the committee for three months in May 2007 in another case and never applied for reinstatement.
