IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEVADA

IN THE MATTER OF DISCIPLINE OF No. 73119 JULIUS M. ENGEL, BAR NO. 8057.

FILED OCT 2 4 2017 ETH A. BROWN

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ORDER IMPOSING RECIPROCAL DISCIPLINE This is a petition for reciprocal discipline of attorney Julius M.

Engel pursuant to SCR 114. Engel accepted money from a client and then failed to perform any legal work, ceased communication with the client, and failed to provide an accounting or return the client's money. Engel also provided untruthful responses to the California State• Bar during its investigation of Engel regarding these issues. In considering this misconduct, the State Bar Court of California's Hearing Department concluded that there were seven aggravating circumstances (prior disciplinary record, multiple violations, refusal or inability to provide an accounting of trust funds, significant harm to the client, lack of remorse, failure to make restitution, and a high level of victim vulnerability) and no mitigating circumstances. On February 15, 2017, the California Supreme Court denied Engel's petition for review and suspended him for three years, with all but the first year stayed, and placed him on probation subject to certain conditions. Engel self-reported his California suspension to the State Bar of Nevada.

SCR 114(4) provides that this court shall impose identical reciprocal discipline unless the attorney demonstrates, or the court finds, that one of four exceptions applies. We conclude that none of the four SUPREME COURT OF NEVADA

(0) 1947A cdtijra 1 - _ADP5cf _ exceptions weighs against the imposition of identical reciprocal discipline in this case. While California found Engel to have violated a California rule that has no Nevada counterpart,' see SCR 114(4)(d) (indicating that if the misconduct established in the other jurisdiction does not constitute misconduct under Nevada's ethical rules, identical discipline may not be appropriate), the five remaining, and arguably more egregious ethical violations, constitute ethical violations in Nevada. Furthermore, the discipline imposed in California is commensurate with discipline Nevada imposes for the most serious of those remaining five violations.

See Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions, Compendium of Professional Responsibility Rules and Standards 452 (Am. Bar Ass'n 2016) ("The ultimate sanction imposed should at least be consistent with the sanction for the most serious instance of misconduct among a number of violations."). Thus, we grant the petition for reciprocal discipline.

Accordingly, attorney Julius M. Engel is hereby suspended from the practice of law in Nevada for three years, with all but the first year of that term stayed, as of February 15, 2017. Additionally, during the three years Engel shall be placed on probation subject to the following conditions: (1) he provide proof that he paid the $2000 in restitution required by the California order; (2) he comply with all Rules of Professional Conduct during his probation; (3) he submit quarterly reports to the State Bar concerning whether he has complied with all Rules of Professional Conduct during the previous quarter; (4) he complete a minimum of 6 CLE classes in the areas of ethics and law practice management, in addition to annually-

"Engel failed to report an adverse judgment entered against him in a professional malpractice case in violation of Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §6068(o)(2) (West 2017).

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It is so ORDERED.

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cc: Chair, Southern Nevada Disciplinary Board Julius M. Engel C. Stanley Hunterton, Bar Counsel, State Bar of Nevada Kimber K. Farmer, Executive Director, State Bar of Nevada Perry Thompson, Admissions Office, U.S. Supreme Court

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