Attorney Grievance Commission v. Kwarteng

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that attorney violated MLRPC 1.3 by failing to communicate with and abandoning his client
• noting that respondent’s abandonment of his client violated, among other things Rules 1.1 and 1.3
• ordering disbarment of an attorney who, in abandonment of one client in two matters, violated MLRPC 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.16(d), 8.1(b) and 8.4(d)
• agreeing with the hearing judge’s conclusion that the respondent attorney was incompetent, in part for failing to prepare responses to discovery requests and failing to preserve the client’s right of appeal
• abandonment, in effect, of representation of client without informing the client violates the duty of competence
• disbarment was the proper sanction where an attorney undertook representation in two cases, but abandoned the matters without informing the client

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).