Attorney Grievance Commission v. Blum

How courts have described this case

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• holding that attorney’s failure to place unearned fees into an attorney trust account violated Rule 1.15(a)
• holding that a lawyer who deposited funds from clients into operating and personal accounts prior to “earning” the funds, and consequently used those funds for a “purpose other than the purpose for which” they were entrusted to the lawyer, violated Rule 1.15
• ordering disbarment for attorney that made multiple misrepresentations in “an attempt to obfuscate the truth and save his own skin”
• attorney who deposited funds for the purpose of retaining his future services into his personal and operating accounts violated MRPC 1.15(a)
• “The funds were given to [Respondent] in anticipation of future services, and as such, qualified as ‘trust money’ ....”
• disbarment is also appropriate when an attorney has made multiple representations in an attempt to obfuscate the truth in order to save him or her self

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).