Attorney Grievance Commission v. McLaughlin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an attorney violated Rule 8.4(c) when the attorney retained unearned fees from four clients
• disbarring an attorney for professional misconduct, including theft of client funds, charging clearly excessive fees, and self-dealing
• retaining elderly clients’ funds while never performing any legal work for those clients
• disbarring an attorney who received over $70,000 from various clients, but did almost no work for them, and created an improper plan for returning unearned fees to clients (creating a loan relationship), but did not advise them to seek independent counsel
• attorney violated 1.16(d) by not refunding unearned fees to his clients after performing no legal work
• attorney violated MRPC 1.15(a) when he deposited retainer fees into his operating account

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).