On February 28, 2014 the Board of Disciplinary Appeals affirmed judgment of partially probated suspension of Dallas and Destin, Florida attorney Max Leon Tepper, 40, State Bar of Texas Card No. 24033377 signed by the District 6A-2 Evidentiary Panel of the State Bar of Texas on August 8, 2012 in case no. D0020936831. The Board affirmed the finding that Mr. Tepper violated TDRPC 8.04(a)(3). (A lawyer shall not engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.)  His sanction was stayed during his appeal. The stay is now dissolved and he is suspended from the practice of law for three years, the first year active and the remainder probated. BODA cause number 50185.