Attorney Grievance Commission v. Hallmon

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that refusal to meet with an Assistant Bar Counsel about a complaint violated MLRPC 8.1.
• holding that the “practice of law” includes the “interpretation” of “legal documents” and “the giving of legal advice,” even when trial work is not involved
• holding that attorney violated Rule 8.1 when he refused to meet with an Assistant Bar Counsel to discuss an investigation after being requested to do so in a letter from the Assistant Bar Counsel
• holding that “[a] demand by a disciplinary authority for information, ... may relate to the conduct of the lawyer from whom the information is sought, or it may relate to the conduct of another”
• stating that “[l]aw clerks and paralegals perform a variety of services for attorneys but they may not give legal advice, accept cases, set fees, appear in court, plan strategy, make legal decisions, or chart the direction of a case”
• holding an attorney’s adequate supervision of legal assistants is an ethical requirement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).