People v. Ryan A. Adair. 13PDJ076. December 10, 2013. The Presiding Disciplinary Judge approved the parties’ conditional admission of misconduct and disbarred Ryan A. Adair (Attorney Registration Number 37405). The disbarment took effect December 10, 2013.
From June 2008 through August 2012, Adair submitted false reimbursement requests and accompanying documentation to his employer for out-of-pocket payments he purported to have incurred. Although Adair never incurred such expenses, he fraudulently obtained $63,734.00 in reimbursements from his employer. Adair’s employer also lost an additional $15,305.00, which it refunded to clients whom Adair had billed for unpaid filing fees and unperformed legal work. Further, another client of Adair’s employer lost $54,400.00 in filing fees and legal services, which it paid for but Adair never rendered. In November 2013, Adair pled guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of fraud related to immigration documents, both federal felony charges. Through his misconduct, Adair violated Colo. RPC 8.4(b) (committing a criminal act reflecting adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer).