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| Board docket number: | 127 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2632 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | September 09, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Reciprocal with New Jersey |
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| Board docket number: | 153 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2647 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | September 09, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Temporary Suspension - Rule 208(f) |
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| Board docket number: | 143 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2638Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | September 06, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Temporary Suspension - Rule 208(f)(1) |
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| Board docket number: | 1 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2645 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | September 03, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Disability Inactive Status - Rule 301 |
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| Board docket number: | 131 DB 2018 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2520 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | September 03, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Disbarment on consent: Failure to hold client funds separate from his own property; Failure to deliver funds owed; Misappropriation of client funds and false statements to conceal misappropriation. |
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| Board docket number: | 142 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | 00 |
| Date: | August 23, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Public Reprimand - to be administered |
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| Board docket number: | 150 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | 00 |
| Date: | August 23, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Public Reprimand - to be administered |
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| Board docket number: | 109 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2636 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | August 23, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Temporary Suspension - Rule 208(f)(5) |
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| Board docket number: | 144 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | 00 |
| Date: | August 21, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Public Reprimand - scheduled 09/12/2019, 10:00 am, District I |
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| Board docket number: | 57 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2635 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | August 14, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Temporary Suspension - Rule 208(f)(5) |
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| Board docket number: | 111 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2625 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | August 06, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Six Month Suspension Reciprocal with New Jersey |
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| Board docket number: | 138 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | 00 |
| Date: | August 02, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Public Reprimand on Consent for violations of RPC 1.1, 1.3, 1.4(a)(3) and 1.4(a)(4), 1.4(b), 1.15(b), and 1.16(d); Mismanagement of IOLTA account resulting from poor record keeping; Neglect and failure to communicate in several client matters; Cooperation, remorse and other mitigating factors. |
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| Board docket number: | 122 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2630 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | August 02, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Temporary Suspension - Rule 208(f)(1) |
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| Board docket number: | 137 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | 2637 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | August 01, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Temporary Suspension-Rule 214 |
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| Board docket number: | 134 DB 2017 |
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| Court docket number: | 2486 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | August 01, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Immediate Reinstatement from One Year Suspension on Consent |
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| Board docket number: | 127 DB 2017 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2591 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 30, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Disbarred; Engaged in misconduct in six separate client matters; Neglect; Failure to communicate; Failure to provide competent representation; Failure to return unearned fees; Failure to acknowledge misconduct or accept responsibility, no remorse and no character evidence aggravate. |
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| Board docket number: | 112 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2626 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 30, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Temporary Suspension - Criminal Conviction - Rule 214 |
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| Board docket number: | 204 DB 2016 |
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| Court docket number: | 00 |
| Date: | July 25, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Public Reprimand on Consent; Engaged in unauthorized practice of law while on administrative suspension status by representing juveniles in Philadelphia Family Court; Cooperation, remorse and no prior discipline mitigate. |
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| Board docket number: | 113 DB 2016 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2618 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 25, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Two Year Suspension; Failure to appear for Public Reprimand based on unauthorized practice of law while on administrative suspension; Failure to accept responsibility or demonstrate remorse and other aggravating factors. |
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| Board docket number: | 77 DB 2010 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 1783 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 22, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Reinstatement Granted from Three Year Suspension based on misappropriation of client funds and neglecting the matters of a client; Rehabilitation, remorse and character witnesses; Burden met. |
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| Board docket number: | 197 DB 2012 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 1932 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 22, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Reinstatement Granted from Disbarment on Consent based on misappropriation of client funds; Qualitative period of disbarment; Accepted responsibility; Community service; Burden met. |
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| Board docket number: | 215 DB 2015 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2192 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 18, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Terms of Probation Modified |
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| Board docket number: | 129 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | 2634 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 18, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Temporary Suspension Rule 214(d)(5) |
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| Board docket number: | 130 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | 2633 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 18, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Disability Inactive Status |
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| Board docket number: | 97 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | 2611 Disciplinary Docket No.3 |
| Date: | July 18, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Disbarred Reciprocal with New York |
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| Board docket number: | 29 DB 2017 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2359 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 15, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Disbarred on Consent; Criminal conviction of 16 counts of willful failure to pay over withheld employment taxes in the United States District Court for Western District of PA; Sentenced to 48 months of imprisonment on each count to be served concurrently and three years supervised release; Mandatory assessment, fines and restitution ordered. |
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| Board docket number: | 106 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2621 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 11, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Temporary Suspension - Rule 208(f) |
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| Board docket number: | 108 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | 00 |
| Date: | July 09, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Public Reprimand for violations of RPC's 1.1, 1.3, 3.3(a)(1) and 8.4(c); Misconduct in three bankruptcy matters; Failed to exercise diligence, competence and due care; No prior discipline. |
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| Board docket number: | 197 DB 2016 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2597 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 09, 2019 |
| Keywords: | One Year and One Day Suspension; Misconduct in seven client matters involving lack of competence; lack of diligence; failure to communicate; failure to return client files; conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice; Lack of remorse and failure to present character evidence aggravate. |
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| Board docket number: | 49 DB 2017 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2370 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 08, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Disbarred on Consent; Plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. |
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| Board docket number: | 125 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2628 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 03, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Disability Inactive Status |
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| Board docket number: | 73 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2622 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 03, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Six Month Suspension on Consent; Engaged in the unauthorized practice of law while on Administrative Suspension status; Self-reported misconduct; Cooperation, remorse and no prior discipline. |
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| Board docket number: | 102 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2627 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 03, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Six Month Suspension on Consent; Engaged in the unauthorized practice of law while on Inactive status. Remorse, cooperation and no prior discipline. |
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| Board docket number: | 103 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2620 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 03, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Temporary Suspension - Criminal Conviction |
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| Board docket number: | 69 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2614 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 01, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Two Year Stayed Suspension and One Year Probation on Consent; Failure to maintain and produce complete required documentation of the receipt, maintenance, and disposition of Rule 1.15 funds; Corrective action, cooperation, remorse and no prior discipline. |
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| Board docket number: | 196 DB 2017 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2603 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 01, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Three Year Suspension; Misconduct in five client matters; Neglect; Failure to account for and refund unearned fees; Conflict of interest; Failure to properly handle client funds; Engaged in unauthorized practice of law; Filed false compliance statement; Submitted altered document to ODC and failed to pay employment taxes; Failure to accept responsibility for actions and to demonstrate remorse aggravate. |
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| Board docket number: | 11 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2617 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | July 01, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Two Year Suspension on Consent; Lack of diligence; Lack of competence; Failure to communicate; Failure to maintain client accounts and refund unearned fees; Breach of duty to his former clients; Remorse and no prior discipline. |
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| Board docket number: | 188 DB 2017 |
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| Court docket number: | 00 |
| Date: | June 28, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Public Reprimand for violations of RPC 1.15(b), 1.15(i) and Pa.R.D.E. 219(d)(1)(iv); Failure to deposit entrusted funds into a trust account; Failure to hold entrusted funds separate from his own; Failure to list business account on Attorney Registration form; Prior discipline and no remorse aggravate. |
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| Board docket number: | 89 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2615 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | June 27, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Six months Suspension on Consent; Neglect of clients and failure to communicate; Aggravating and mitigating factors. |
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| Board docket number: | 156 DB 2018 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2607 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | June 27, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Six Month Suspension on Consent; Engaged in the unauthorized practice of law and law related activities while working as in-house counsel for numerous court filings in PA; Remorse, cooperation and no prior discipline in NY where she is admitted. |
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| Board docket number: | 34 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2581 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | June 24, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Disbarred on Consent; Criminal Conviction of conspiracy to commit to offense or to defraud the United States; unlawful campaign contributions; false campaign reports; false statements; contributions in the name of another; obstruction of a pending agency proceeding. |
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| Board docket number: | 29 DB 2018 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2596 Disciplinary Docket 3 |
| Date: | June 20, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Disbarred; Misappropriation of client funds in the amount of $95,192.47; Engaged in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation by trying to conceal the misappropriation; Failure to express remorse, prior discipline for similar misconduct and fiscal irresponsibility aggravate. |
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| Board docket number: | 236 DB 2018 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2610 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | June 20, 2019 |
| Keywords: | One Year and One Day Suspension on Consent; Misconduct in two separate matters; Filed a frivolous pleading and was ultimately held in contempt for violating a court order; Failed to maintain proper financial records; Failure to cooperate with disciplinary counsel aggravate; Belated cooperation and no prior discipline mitigate. |
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| Board docket number: | 224 DB 2018 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2613 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | June 13, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Disbarred on Consent |
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| Board docket number: | 243 DB 2018 |
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| Court docket number: | 00 |
| Date: | June 07, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Public Reprimand with Two Year Probation with Sobriety Monitor; Criminal Conviction of DUI; Unauthorized practice of law while on administrative suspension; No prior discipline; Reprimand to be scheduled. |
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| Board docket number: | 43 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2600 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | June 07, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Temporary Suspension - Rule 208(f)(5) |
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| Board docket number: | 68 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2605 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | June 07, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Six month suspension on consent; Unauthorized practice of law while on Inactive Status over a 5 year period.; Remorse, cooperation and no prior discipline. |
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| Board docket number: | 12 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2570 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | May 30, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Disbarred on Consent; Criminal Conviction of six counts of Obstructing Administration of Law and four counts of Official Oppression. |
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| Board docket number: | 91 DB 2019 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2609 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | May 28, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Disbarment on Consent |
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| Board docket number: | 199 DB 2018 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2599 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | May 24, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Five Year Suspension on Consent; Failed to safeguard client funds; Commingled client funds with personal funds; Neglect; Failure to communicate; Failed to respond to clients requests for updates and misrepresented the status of their matters; Engaged in the unlawful practice of law after being administratively suspended; Misrepresentations when seeking to return to active status; Mitigating factors warrant a five year suspension rather than disbarment. |
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| Board docket number: | 38 DB 2016 |
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| Court docket number: | No, 2254 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | May 24, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Three Year Suspension on Consent; Misappropriation of fiduciary funds and misuse of funds belonging to his former law firm; No prior discipline and other mitigating factors. |
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| Board docket number: | 175 DB 2018 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2606 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | May 20, 2019 |
| Keywords: | Two Year Suspension on Consent; Unauthorized practice of law in three client matters while on Disability Inactive Status. Mitigating factors. |
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| Board docket number: | 174 DB 2018 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2598 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | May 20, 2019 |
| Keywords: | 18 Month Suspension on Consent; Failed to properly supervise and assisted two attorneys who were ineligible to practice law in the unauthorized practice of law; Mitigating factors. |
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