The state’s highest court disbarred an attorney who is licensed in Maryland but based in New York. The Court of Appeals decision is harsher than the two-year suspension the lawyer received in his home state.
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The state’s highest court Tuesday disbarred an attorney who had finished serving a one-year suspension last year. The Court of Appeals found Harford County attorney Jerome P. Johnson failed to properly manage his attorney trust account and did not respond ...
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A Baltimore defense attorney with more than 40 years of experience is facing disbarment proceedings. Edward Smith Jr. is accused of having violated about 10 of the Maryland Lawyers Rules of Professional Conduct for mishandling client funds, taking money from ...
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A Baltimore County attorney who failed to competently represent two clients and then obstructed the disciplinary process by ignoring requests for information from Bar Counsel and misrepresenting the work she completed for clients has been disbarred by the state’s top ...
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A Rockville attorney who attempted to impose a retaining lien on his client’s file due to unpaid legal fees despite having already violated the fee agreement himself by failing to provide the invoices she requested has been indefinitely suspended by ...
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Following an attorney grievance investigation that began with six separate client complaints, a Towson attorney was disbarred due to her lack of response to inquiries from clients and Bar Counsel, her “egregious abandonment” of cases and her failure to return ...
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Read More »The Court of Appeals disbarred an attorney because he abandoned his representation of clients in two separate cases and failed to inform Bar Counsel that he had violated an agreement to stop using alcohol and attend counseling sessions. The court ...
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Read More »Disbarments, suspensions and reprimands of Maryland attorneys all increased during the last fiscal year, according to the Attorney Grievance Commission’s most-recent annual report. The number of Maryland lawyers who were disbarred during fiscal 2015 rose almost 70 percent from fiscal ...
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The state’s top court has disbarred a Columbia lawyer who earned more than $150,000 while performing home improvement work without a license for dozens of clients. During investigations by the Maryland Home Improvement Commission and the Attorney Grievance Commission, Matthew ...
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Read More »The Court of Appeals has disbarred a Prince George’s County personal injury attorney whose legal assistant allegedly misappropriated $600,000 from an attorney trust account in less than four years due to the lawyer’s lack of supervision. When it became clear ...
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