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| Board docket number: | 58 DB 1989 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 771 Disciplinary Docket No. 2 |
| Date: | May 12, 2017 |
| Keywords: | Reinstatement Granted from three year suspension based on commingling client trust funds; Remorse; Character Witnesses; Burden met. |
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| Board docket number: | 176 DB 2015 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2216 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | May 12, 2017 |
| Keywords: | Five Year Suspension on Consent based on criminal conviction of 150 counts of Possession of Child Pornography; No prior discipline and other mitigating factors. |
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| Board docket number: | 87 DB 2010 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 1619 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | April 27, 2017 |
| Keywords: | Reinstatement Granted from Disbarment on Consent based on misappropriation of client funds; Character witnesses, remorse and qualitative period of disbarment; Burden met. |
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| Board docket number: | 2 DB 2017 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2358 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | April 27, 2017 |
| Keywords: | Disbarred on Consent; Failure to respond; Client neglect; Misappropriation of client funds; Prior discipline for similar misconduct. |
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| Board docket number: | 108 DB 2016 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2316 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | April 27, 2017 |
| Keywords: | One Year and One Day Suspension on Consent; Misappropriation of client funds; Failure to communicate and client neglect; No prior discipline. |
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| Board docket number: | 21 DB 2013 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2140 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | April 27, 2017 |
| Keywords: | Three Month Suspension; Violated the terms and conditions of his probation by failure to file timely motions and to take affirmative steps to schedule meetings with practice monitor. |
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| Board docket number: | 44 DB 2015 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2199 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | March 31, 2017 |
| Keywords: | Disbarred; Filed numerous baseless & frivolous actions in multiple PA courts; Made disparaging and unfounded statements about jurists & court employees in multiple pleadings; Engaged in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice; Failure to appear at disciplinary proceedings aggravates. |
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| Board docket number: | 145 DB 2016 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2319 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | March 30, 2017 |
| Keywords: | One Year and One Day Suspension on Consent; Neglect; Failure to return unearned fees; Failure to respond to inquiries from disciplinary authorities; Aggravating factors. |
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| Board docket number: | 193 DB 2016 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2363 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | March 30, 2017 |
| Keywords: | One Year Suspension on Consent; Misappropriation of client funds; Restitution, remorse and no prior discipline mitigate. |
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| Board docket number: | 135 DB 2008 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 1556 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | March 22, 2017 |
| Keywords: | Reinstatement Denied from 1 Year and 1 Day Suspension; Failed to demonstrate remorse; Failed to accept responsibility for prior wrongdoing; Failed to show rehabilitation; Failed to make attempts to pay outstanding debts; Engaged in conduct that threatened the legal system by his baseless statements about members of the Judiciary; Burden not met. |
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| Board docket number: | 6 DB 2017 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2259 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | March 22, 2017 |
| Keywords: | Three Month Suspension followed by Nine Month Probation on Consent; Criminal Conviction of DUI; Unauthorized practice of law while on administrative suspension. |
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| Board docket number: | 107 DB 2009 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 1531 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | March 13, 2017 |
| Keywords: | Reinstatement Granted from Disbarment on Consent based on misappropriation of entrusted client funds; Rehabilitation, remorse, and restitution made; Burden met. |
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| Board docket number: | 90 DB 2015 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2340 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | March 13, 2017 |
| Keywords: | Six Month Suspension; False Statement to ODC; Failure to respond to ODC supplemental request for info; Failure to file a compliance statement with the Disciplinary Board; Lack of Remorse, Failure to accept responsibility, Lack of candor and credibility and prior discipline aggravate. |
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| Board docket number: | 212 DB 2016 |
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| Court docket number: | 00 |
| Date: | March 10, 2017 |
| Keywords: | Public Reprimand; Criminal conviction of Indirect Criminal Contempt for voluntarily going on Inactive Status to avoid representing a client in a criminal trial; No prior discipline. |
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| Board docket number: | 109 DB 2016 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2286 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | February 27, 2017 |
| Keywords: | Disbarred on Consent; Criminal Conviction of Theft by Deception and Unlawful Use of a Computer. |
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| Board docket number: | 75 DB 2015 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2190 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | February 24, 2017 |
| Keywords: | Three Year Suspension on Consent; Misappropriation of client funds; Failed to finalize an estate; Mitigating factors; Prior discipline. |
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| Board docket number: | 130 DB 2016 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2335 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | February 24, 2017 |
| Keywords: | One Year & One Day Suspension on Consent; Failure to communicate; Neglect of client matters; Abandonment of two clients; Failure to appropriately hold, account for and disburse client funds; Belatedly cooperated with ODC. |
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| Board docket number: | 13 DB 2016 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2243 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | February 23, 2017 |
| Keywords: | Disbarred on Consent; Advised clients on matters for which he was not competent; Charged excessive and illegal fees; Failed to hold client funds in trust; Failed to protect clients' interest; Failed to refund unearned fees. |
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| Board docket number: | 130 DB 2015 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2197 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | February 21, 2017 |
| Keywords: | Three Year Suspension; Criminal convictions of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine and possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of a controlled substance; Cooperation, remorse, recognition of wrongdoing and lack of prior discipline mitigate. |
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| Board docket number: | 69 DB 2015 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2166 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | February 03, 2017 |
| Keywords: | One Year and One Day Suspension; Failure to diligently represent or communicate with her clients; Ex parte communication with a federal judge; Failure to cooperate with disciplinary process; No prior discipline. |
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| Board docket number: | 78 DB 2015 |
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| Court docket number: | No. 2325 Disciplinary Docket No. 3 |
| Date: | January 30, 2017 |
| Keywords: | Disbarred; RPC 1.3, 1.5(a), 1.5(b), 1.5(c), 1.15(b), 1.15(c), 1.15(i), 1.16(a)(2), 8.4(c), 8.4(d), PaRDE 203(b)(3); Egregious misconduct in client matters involving misappropriation and misapplication of entrusted funds; Aggravating factors. |
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