Attorney Grievance Commission v. Gage-Cohen

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an attorney, even if knowledgeable, provides “incompetent representation if [the attorney] is not thorough or is unprepared”
• holding that the attorney’s failure to maintain trust account records and mismanagement of client funds violated MLRPC 1.15(a) and (c), among other trust account management rules
• acknowledging that the attorney’s violation of MLRPC 1.15(a
• “Consistent with MLRPC 1.15, this [R]ule requires attorneys to keep all client funds in a trust account until earned as fees or otherwise distributed in accordance with the representation agreement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).