People v. Crosby.

No. 24PDJ068. Reciprocal Discipline. 8/23/2024.

The Presiding Disciplinary Judge approved the parties’ stipulation and suspended John William Crosby (attorney registration number 27245) from the practice of law in Colorado for two years, with nine months to be served and the remainder to be stayed on the successful completion of a two-year period of probation, with conditions. Crosby’s suspension took effect on August 23, 2024.

This reciprocal discipline case arose out of discipline imposed on Crosby by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on November 2, 2023. Crosby’s suspension was premised on his failure to act with reasonable diligence and promptness, failure to keep his clients informed about the status of their matters, failure to promptly comply with his clients’ reasonable requests for information about their matters, failure to explain matters to the extent reasonably necessary to permit his clients to make informed decisions about the representation, failure to promptly deliver to a third person the funds the third person was entitled to receive, and failure to protect a client’s interests upon his withdrawal from the representation. Crosby also engaged in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation. Finally, he was separately publicly censured by the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada.

Through this conduct, Crosby engaged in conduct constituting grounds for reciprocal discipline under CRCP 242.21, which calls for imposition of the same discipline as that imposed by the USPTO.