Court denies lawyer admission to bar
A veteran lawyer seeking to practice in Maryland who failed to disclose a DWI arrest until after he passed the bar exam was denied admittance by a divided Court of Appeals.
Gregory John Strzempek spent four days in jail in April 2006 in Fairfax, Va., as part of pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated — a fact he did not disclose during his character committee interview less than two weeks after he was released. Only after Strzempek learned he passed the bar in November 2006 did he notify Maryland’s Board of Law Examiners.