An attorney’s intentional dishonesty to a court, client or bar counsel no longer results necessarily in the loss of a law license, Maryland’s top court ruled.
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Read More »February 28, 2022 Comments Off on Lies don’t always mean disbarment, Maryland high court says
An attorney’s intentional dishonesty to a court, client or bar counsel no longer results necessarily in the loss of a law license, Maryland’s top court ruled.
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Read More »November 9, 2021 Comments Off on Maryland man wants pardon in murder case handled by disbarred ex-prosecutor Cassilly
A onetime death-row inmate whose complaint against a retired Harford County state’s attorney led to his disbarment is seeking a pardon ...
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Read More »August 13, 2021 Comments Off on Maryland high court disbars lawyer who ignored clients, lied to bar counsel
Maryland’s top court has disbarred a Chevy Chase lawyer who did shoddy work for three immigration clients and essentially ignored them but kept their fees.
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Read More »July 27, 2021 Comments Off on Maryland high court disbars lawyer who fabricated evidence to bar counsel
A unanimous Maryland high court has disbarred a Baltimore attorney who fabricated evidence to bar counsel investigators to cover up her ethical violations.
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Read More »June 14, 2021 Comments Off on Connecticut provides right to counsel in eviction proceedings
Welcome to Monday, the 28th anniversary of President Bill Clinton’s nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court. Here are some news items to get your week started. — Connecticut governor signs law giving low-income renters a right to ...
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Read More »June 1, 2021 Comments Off on Maryland high court disbars Annapolis attorney for lying to client
A unanimous Maryland high court has disbarred an Annapolis attorney who compounded his failure to file an appeal as promised by not only declining to tell his business client about the court’s resulting dismissal of the case but then lying about trying to reinstate the appeal.
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Read More »April 2, 2021 Comments Off on Md. high court disbars attorney who raided estate’s funds
A unanimous Maryland top court has disbarred a probate attorney who raided a client’s nearly $850,000 estate for personal use, including to pay his daughters’ private school tuition, his credit card bills and his legal malpractice insurance premiums. Nicholas G. ...
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Read More »March 31, 2021 Comments Off on Md. high court disbars unlicensed attorney
A unanimous Maryland top court Wednesday disbarred a District of Columbia attorney who practiced law in Maryland without a state license, lied to a client about the status of his personal injury claim and failed to properly keep settlement funds ...
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Read More »December 22, 2020 Comments Off on Md. Court of Appeals disbars ‘one-man misconduct wave’
Maryland’s top court has unanimously disbarred a Baltimore attorney it described as “a one-man misconduct wave” who threatened to “blow up” a physical therapy facility whose owner had filed an ethics complaint against him. Besides the violent threat, Darryl Russel ...
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Read More »September 4, 2020 Comments Off on Prominent lawyer fights claims he violated ethics rules in seeking $25M fee
Did a well-known malpractice lawyer commit a potentially disbarrable offense in seeking – perhaps with the threat of a damaging public disclosure – a $25 million consulting gig with the University of Maryland Medical System while representing a woman whose ...
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