Kansas City attorney Robert Phillip Numrich, first admitted to the bar in Missouri more than 40 years ago and who received a stayed suspension in 2014 for self-reported misconduct, has completed his probation, according to a Dec. 13 Missouri Supreme Court order.
The high court issued its brief order that Numrich had successfully completed the probationary period set forth in its Sept. 9, 2014 order. The state high court found Numrich had violated rules of professional conduct and handed down a stayed indefinite suspension and placed Numrich on three years' probation effective from the date of the order. Numrich also was directed in the September 2014 order to pay $1,500 in costs. In its more recent order, the court also directed Numrich to pay costs.
Numrich was admitted to the Missouri bar Sept. 7, 1974, according to his profile at the state bar's website.
Numrich is founder and longtime shareholder in Baty, Holm, Numrich & Otto, which has offices in Kansas City, St. Louis and Springfield. He is a civil trial attorney working in premises liability, product liability, transportation litigation, school law and commercial disputes, according to his profile at the Baty Holm Numrich & Otto website. He also is licensed to practice in Kansas and in the Eighth and 10th Circuit Courts of Appeal, according to his profile at the firm's website.
The stayed suspension handed down against Numrich stems from separate client matters. One was when Numrich was hired by a defendant in a February 2009 case, and the other in which he'd been hired by a client in 2006, according to the 29-page informant's brief field in May 2014 by the chief disciplinary counsel. In the former case, Numrich admitted to acts and omissions caused prejudice to all parties in that case, including opposing counsel, according to the informant's brief.
In the latter matter, Numrich admitted to alleging a settlement had been reached in the case when he had no authority to enter into a settlement and no settlement had been reached, according to the brief.
Numrich self-reported the misconduct in February 2010 and had been his first and only disciplinary complaint during his years of practice, according to the informant's brief.