In re Petition for Disciplinary Action against Stephen J. Baird, a Minnesota Attorney, Registration No. 0398840. ...

── In re Petition for Disciplinary Action against Stephen J. Baird, a Minnesota Attorney, Registration No. 0398840. ... ── Court: Supreme Court of Minnesota Date: March 26, 2025 Category: General Decision: Disbarred 1. An attorney who is licensed to practice law and is practicing law in Minnesota at the time the Director of the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility learns that the attorney has been publicly disciplined or is subject to public disciplinary charges in another jurisdiction is subject to reciprocal discipline under Rule 12(d), Rules on Lawyers Professional Responsibility. 2. Reciprocal discipline of disbarment under Rule 12(d), Rules on Lawyers Professional Responsibility, is appropriate where an attorney was disbarred three times and suspended for more than six months by another jurisdiction for failing to act with reasonable diligence and promptness, failing to reasonably communicate regarding clients’ cases and to respond to clients’ reasonable requests for information, failing to keep clients reasonably informed about the status of a matter, providing misinformation about the statuses of clients’ cases, failing to refund unused fees or return clients’ files and records after the termination of representation, failing to take remedial action with respect to an employee’s lack of reasonable diligence and communication, and failing to take reasonable steps to protect clients’ interests by making timely transitions of their cases to subsequent counsel. Disbarred.