The Drexel Bradshaw case was examined in an earlier post on this blog, Reversal of Fortune. Now, fickle Fortune reverses itself again, the California Supreme Court granting a petition from the Office of Chief Trial Counsel by remanding the case back to the Review Department for reconsideration of its July 2019 decision that dismissed the case after a disbarment recommendation from the Hearing Department.  A unanimous Supreme Court asked the Review Department to reconsider the dismissal ‘in light of the June 14, 2019, Amended Statement of Decision on Petition After Trial And Order in San Francisco Superior Court Case No. PTR-17-301118.” It also directed the Review Department to consider whether to return Bradshaw to inactive enrollment under Business and Professions Code section 6007, subdivision (c)(4), pending its reconsideration of the underlying disciplinary matter.  That section provides for automatic inactive enrollment whenever a disbarment recommendation is made in the State Bar Court.

While the State Bar functions as the California Supreme Court's administrative arm in the area of discipline, the high court seldom grants petitions for review by either respondents or the Office of Chief Trial Counsel, although it reviews all the disciplinary recommendations made by the State Bar Court.