In Re Lasley

James Frank Lasley, who had been a practicing lawyer in Illinois before coming to this state, filed with the clerk of this court his application to be admitted to the bar of California. He accompanied his application with an affidavit, in the form prescribed for that purpose, wherein he swore that, so far as he was aware, no charges of unprofessional conduct or proceedings for disbarment had been filed against him before any bar association, court, or other body. On the recommendation of the board of bar examiners, to whom his application had been referred, this court, on March 8, 1920, made its order admitting him to practice law in all the courts of this state. The Los Angeles County Bar Association has filed a petition for the revocation of that order, alleging that Lesley’s affidavit was false, in that, while practicing his profession in Illinois, charges of unprofessional conduct had been filed against him before the Peoria Bar Association. Lesley filed an answer which, admitting that charges had been preferred against him as alleged, attempts to justify his false affidavit by pleading, with much detail, that the charges were false and destitute of merit. He admits that when…