In re Halpern

• Decision Date: 11 September 2020
• Docket Number: 084534,D-143 September Term 2019
• Citation: 236 A.3d 885 (Mem),243 N.J. 552
• Parties: In the MATTER OF Susan Penny HALPERN, An Attorney At Law (Attorney No. 031901985)
• Court: New Jersey Supreme Court

243 N.J. 552

236 A.3d 885 (Mem)

In the MATTER OF Susan Penny HALPERN, An Attorney At Law (Attorney No. 031901985)

D-143 September Term 2019

084534

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

ORDER

The Disciplinary Review Board having filed with the Court its decision in DRB 19-356 concluding that as a matter of final discipline pursuant to Rule 1:20-13(c), Susan Penny Halpern of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who was admitted to the bar of this State in 1986, should be censured based on respondent's guilty pleas in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to two misdemeanor violations of 26 U.S.C. § 7203 (willful failure to pay tax), conduct that violates RPC 8.4(b) (criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects) and RPC 8.4(c) (conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation);

And good cause appearing;

It is ORDERED that Susan Penny Halpern is hereby censured; and it is further

ORDERED that the entire record of this matter be made a permanent part of respondent's file as an attorney at law of this State; and it is further

ORDERED that respondent reimburse the Disciplinary Oversight Committee for appropriate administrative costs and actual expenses incurred in the prosecution of this matter, as provided in Rule 1:20-17.