NEW ORLEANS – Shreveport attorney Jeananne Roy Self faces possible reprimand following a Jan. 22 recommendation issued by a Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board (LADB) hearing committee over two counts that included her 2016 guilty plea to marijuana possession.
In its 48-page recommendation, the LADB recommended Self be reprimanded for the count based on her misdemeanor marijuana possession plea.
The committee recommended she receive no sanction for the second count, unauthorized multi-jurisdictional practice of law, which it said should be dismissed.
The committee also recommended Self be ordered to pay all costs and expenses in the disciplinary proceeding.
The recommendation was signed Jan. 18 by committee chairman Stephen Callaway and was issued four days later. Attorney John Marshall Rice and public member Mark P. Viven concurred.
Self was admitted to the bar in Louisiana on April 24, 2008, according to her profile at the Louisiana State Bar Association's website.
Allegations in the first count against Self stem from her October 2015 arrest and her subsequent guilty plea in Caddo Parish District Court in June of the following year to one count of simple possession of marijuana. Self was sentenced to 15 days in jail and ordered to pay a $300 fine and court costs, according to the recommendation.
The second count against Self stemmed from a previous discipline. Self was voluntarily suspended for two years, with one year deferred, following a November 2013 Supreme Court disciplinary proceeding. In that matter, Self was alleged to have failed to promptly refund an unearned fee to a client and to have commingled client funds with personal funds in her trust account.
Self had been placed on interim suspension in October of the previous year, according to the recommendation.
While under interim suspension, Self agreed to assist another attorney in a pending adoption proceeding in Caddo Parish juvenile court, according to the recommendation. Self allegedly counseled and provided legal advice to the biological parents, who were surrendering their parental rights.