Attorney Suspended for Submitting Fake ABA Meeting Receipt

A Wisconsin attorney who was found to have submitted false receipts for reimbursement to her employer must serve a six-month suspension.

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin wrote in its Dec. 18 opinion that the legal community deserves assurance that Beth M. Bant has “successfully demonstrated to this court” that she has tried to remedy “the causes of her misbehavior.”

Bant was fired from her in-house counsel job at an insurance company soon after it was discovered that she had filed fraudulent expense reports, according to the court. One was for an American Bar Association event that she didn’t attend. Bant ...