Sec. 81.0751.  APPEALS.  (a)  The commission or a respondent attorney may appeal:
(1)  a finding of a panel of a district grievance committee under Section 81.075(e) only to the Board of Disciplinary Appeals;
(2)  a finding of the Board of Disciplinary Appeals to the supreme court;  and
(3)  a judgment of a district court as in civil cases generally.
(b)  In an appeal of a finding of a panel of a district grievance committee made to the Board of Disciplinary Appeals, the board may:
(1)  affirm in whole or part the panel's finding;
(2)  modify the panel's finding and affirm the finding as modified;
(3)  reverse in whole or part the panel's finding and enter a finding the board determines the panel should have entered;  or
(4)  reverse the panel's finding and remand the complaint for a rehearing to be conducted by:
(A)  the panel that entered the finding;  or
(B)  a statewide grievance committee panel composed of members selected from the state bar districts other than the district from which the appeal was taken.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 227, Sec. 17, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.