· 2/27/1990
ATTORNEY GRIEV. COMM'N OF MARYLAND v. Manning
Citations
- 569 A.2d 1250
- 318 Md. 697
- 1990 Md. LEXIS 33
How courts have described this case
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- holding that disbarment is the appropriate sanction for persistent neglect as it is evidence of a lawyer’s disregard for his obligation
- finding neglect of client matters, failure to communicate with clients, and failure to cooperate in disciplinary proceedings to warrant disbarment
- disbarring an attorney for \willful and flagrant neglect\ of his clients' affairs over a more than two-year period, where the attorney had a prior record and there were no mitigating circumstances
- disbarring an attorney for “willful and flagrant neglect” of his clients’ affairs over a more than two-year period, where the attorney had a prior record and there were no mitigating circumstances
- quoted in Attorney Grievance Comm’n v. Wallace, 368 Md. 277, 291-92 [793 A.2d 535] (2002)
- neglect of clients’ matters, failure to communicate with clients and failure to cooperate in disciplinary proceedings by failing to respond to bar counsel’s request for information in investigation of ethics complaints warrants disbarment
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Judges: Cole
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