Attorney Grievance Commission v. Lara

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “multiple violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct as determined herein also establish misconduct in violation of Rule 8.4(a).”
• disbarring an attorney who agreed to represent two clients in filing bankruptcy petitions, did not deposit their advance fee payments in an attorney trust account, abandoned his law office, and ignored all of Bar Counsel’s requests for information
• “[A] minority blockholder is not considered to be 15 a controlling stockholder unless it exercises such formidable voting and managerial 16 power that [it], as a practical matter, [is] no differently situated than if [it] had 17 majority voting control.”

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