A unanimous Maryland high court has disbarred a Laurel bankruptcy attorney for ethical violations in handling her own case as well as misappropriating client funds and lying to and concealing information from clients in their cases. Arlene Adasa Smith-Scott made ...

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Maryland’s top court has unanimously disbarred a Baltimore lawyer who, the judges concluded, ignored everything about his clients except their retainer payments — which he, in turn, declined to keep in a trust account until earned as required under the ...

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Attorney Samuel Edward Hensley was disbarred Friday by the Maryland Court of Appeals, which found that he had misappropriated funds owed to a client’s medical providers, and that he failed to communicate or provide services to another client by not ...

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Montgomery County lawyer Jonathan C. Dailey was disbarred Wednesday by the Maryland Court of Appeals, which found that Dailey solicited $27,000 from a former client for his own use after telling the client that the money would be an investment ...

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Montgomery County attorney William Clark Planta has been disbarred by the Maryland Court of Appeals, which found that Planta was consistently unprepared for and late to hearings and that he misappropriated client funds in five cases. Planta, who was admitted ...

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Baltimore attorney Anne Margaret Miller was disbarred Wednesday by the Maryland Court of Appeals, which found that she misled a client into believing that she had filed the client’s adoption petition and that she intentionally delayed resolution of the case ...

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Severna Park attorney Jason E. Rheinstein was disbarred Friday by a unanimous Maryland Court of Appeals, which found that Rheinstein had concocted an untrue conspiracy theory that he used in a lawsuit against a private lending company in 2012. The ...

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Potomac attorney Kenneth Steven Kaufman was disbarred Friday by the Maryland Court of Appeals, which found he violated multiple rules of professional conduct by failing to communicate with a client. The violations included failing to inform his client of a ...

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An immigration lawyer was disbarred Monday by the Maryland Court of Appeals, which found Jude Ambe violated 10 rules of professional conduct while representing a Cameroonian client seeking asylum in the United States.

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The number of complaints filed against Maryland lawyers dropped for a second consecutive year and again hit a 10-year low in fiscal 2019, which ended June 30, the Attorney Grievance Commission stated in its recently released annual report. However, the ...

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