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Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Dec 22, 2024

Atlanta lawyer Robert Andrew Free received a public censure from the Tennessee Supreme Court on Dec. 19. Free represented a client in an immigration application to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS). A request for evidence was sent to Free’s office from USCIS, but he did not respond and did not send the request to his client. A decision was issued in the matter and sent to Free’s office a few months later, and he did not inform his client of the decision. Three years later, Free’s neglect was discovered, and he cooperated with the client’s subsequent attorney in seeking to reopen the immigration application. The court found these actions violated Rules of Professional Conduct 1.3, 1.4 and 8.4(d).