People v. Bret Wesley Glass. 15PDJ001. January 8, 2015. The Presiding Disciplinary Judge approved the parties’ conditional admission of misconduct and suspended Bret Wesley Glass (Attorney Registration Number 16521) for thirty days, all stayed upon the successful completion of a two-year period of probation, with conditions. The probation took effect January 8, 2015.
Glass represented a client in a dispute regarding the estate of the client’s father. Glass received a final distribution of estate funds on the client’s behalf and then paid those funds to the client. The next month, Glass contacted the client to request a loan. Glass did so because he knew the client had just received the estate distribution. The client made two loans to Glass, totaling $7,000.00. The client thereafter had a very difficult time contacting Glass, and Glass did not repay the loan promptly, as he had promised to do.
Through these actions, Glass violated Colo. RPC 1.9(c), which restricts the circumstances in which a lawyer who formerly represented a client may use information relating to the representation to the client’s disadvantage.