A former tax partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher has been suspended from practice for one year for billing clients for $30,000 worth of personal long-distance calls.

Patrick Carmody, who joined Willkie in 1990 and became a partner in 1998, resigned from the firm in April 2003, shortly after his misconduct was discovered. At the time, he testified at a disciplinary hearing last year, he had been earning around $1 million a year at the firm.