You don’t have to be a member of the Maryland Bar to face the Court of Appeals’ top sanction, according to a ruling filed on Thursday. The state’s top court disbarred Tawana D. Shephard, who was not licensed to practice ...
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The state’s top court has disbarred a Towson attorney with a “rather lengthy history” of misconduct who faced complaints from four clients she represented in divorce matters. Melissa D. Gray charged these clients unreasonable fees, ignored phone calls and emails ...
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A Columbia lawyer who faced attorney grievance complaints from six different clients was disbarred because failed to use a trust account for unearned legal fees, did not refund those unearned fees after representation agreements ended and was unresponsive to his ...
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The Court of Appeals has suspended for 30 days an attorney who “essentially abandoned” her representation of a client before the Court of Special Appeals by failing to appear at oral argument and then not informing the client that he ...
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The Court of Appeals has disbarred a Montgomery County attorney who underpaid his federal income taxes by $2.5 million over the course of 15 years. Although a sharply divided court ruled in 2012 to indefinitely suspend Gerald Isadore Katz for ...
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Read More »We believe that the Attorney Grievance Commission must have the power to stop disbarred lawyers from continuing to practice law and those activities reasonably related thereto, where there is any possibility those services will be provided to consumers other than lawyers.
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They hired Neil J. Lewis to represent them after they were injured in car accidents. But some of his former clients are now finding themselves back in court to pay their portion of what could be more than a $1 million in medical bills Lewis was supposed to pay out of settlement proceeds, a transgression that led to his disbarment.
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Read More »The Court of Appeals has indefinitely suspended an attorney who was found to have falsified invoices to obtain more than $6,000 in reimbursement from her Boston-based law firm for personal expenses she claimed were business-related. Mira Sugarman Burghardt worked as ...
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The Court of Appeals has ordered the disbarment of an Anne Arundel County lawyer whose disciplinary history includes a 60-day suspension for exchanging a Vicodin pill for sex, as well as an indefinite suspension for sending sexual text messages to a client.
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Read More »Maryland’s top court has indefinitely suspended a bankruptcy attorney for failing to competently represent nine clients over a two-year period and allowing a nonlawyer employee to give legal advice to clients of her firm.
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