Attorney disbarred for unethical behavior

    • [DOCX File]OPINION - California

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      Phillips’s unethical conduct included: (1) charging or collecting illegal fees; (2) misappropriating client funds; (3) failing to obey court orders; (4) committing acts of moral turpitude; (5) misleading a judge; (6) performing incompetently; (7) failing to communicate with clients; and (8) violating the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure.

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    • [DOCX File]dallasparalegals.org

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      The American Bar Association and many state and local Bar Associations have disbarred attorneys from further practice of law (1) as a punitive measure for wrongdoing (usually violations of the Code of Ethics or criminal activity) and (2) to protect the general public from inadvertently receiving the legal services of an attorney who does not ...

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    • [DOC File]PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY OUTLINE

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      court holds no disqualification, and refuses to assume unethical behavior. Sexual Relations. DR 1.8(j): A lawyer shall not have sexual relations with a client unless a consensual sexual relationship existed between them when the client-lawyer relationship commenced. makes sense to protect exploitation of power and trust relationship.

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    • [DOCX File]STATE BAR COURT OF CALIFORNIA

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      On April 17, 2012, the Notice of Disciplinary Charges (NDC) in case no. 12-N-10159 was filed in this court by the State Bar of California. In that NDC, the State Bar alleges that Respondent willfully violated the Supreme Court’s order of October 19, 2011, which suspended Respondent for 90 days from the practice of law and required him to comply with rule 9.20, subdivisions (a) and (c), of ...

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    • [DOC File]PUBLIC MATTER – NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION

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      State Bar (1991) 52 Cal.3d 1067, the Supreme Court disbarred an attorney who misappropriated checks payable to his law firm and a check from a client trust fund totaling approximately $29,000. When confronted by his managing partner, the attorney repeatedly denied knowledge of the missing checks and then claimed they were needed to help pay for ...

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    • [DOC File]PUBLIC MATTER - NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION

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      State Bar, supra, 47 Cal.3d at p. 508 [disbarment where attorney would not “amend his ways” of committing serious acts of misconduct including violation of court orders]; the Matter of Varakin, supra, 3 Cal. State Bar Ct. Rptr. 179, 189-191 [disbarment for 30-year attorney sanctioned for filing frivolous motions and appeals over a 12-year ...

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    • [DOC File]Answers to Review Questions

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      A disbarred or suspended attorney might be allowed to work as a paralegal. ... Ethics are rules that embody standards of behavior to which members of an organization must conform. ... It is unethical for an attorney in a current case to oppose a person who was once a client of the attorney in an earlier case when the current case is the same as ...

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    • [DOC File]PUBLIC MATTER – DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION

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      “[N]o disbarred attorney can be reinstated in his old place in the profession except upon a showing of facts, aided perhaps by affidavits or even letters of well-known persons, particularly lawyers and judges, expressing a conviction, based on a statement of facts, that the petitioner for reinstatement has reformed, and all demonstrating that ...

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    • [DOC File]State Bar of California

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      The purpose of attorney discipline is not to punish the attorney but to protect the public, the courts, and the legal profession. (Std. 1.1(a).) Having independently reviewed all arguments set forth by Kinney, those not specifically addressed have been considered and rejected as having no merit. -2-

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    • [DOC File]Sample Quiz - Cengage

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      7. It is nearly impossible for a paralegal to be disciplined by his or her jurisdiction’s attorney-discipline committee, even if the paralegal commits an atrocious act of unethical behavior. 8. The U.S. Department of Labor classifies paralegals, like lawyers, as exempt from the overtime pay requirements. 9.

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