Attorney Grievance Commission v. Nussbaum

How courts have described this case

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• holding that misappropriation of a client’s escrow funds for attorney’s own use violated MLRPC 8.4(b)
• concluding that attorney’s commingling of client funds with personal funds in a trust account violated MLRPC 1.15(a)
• concluding that attorney who commingled and improperly withdrew funds from a trust account violated MLRPC 1.15(a)
• concluding that attorney’s use of his escrow account to pay personal debts constituted an intentional misappropriation of client funds as well as commingling of funds in violation of Rule 1.15
• determining that Nussbaum violated MLRPC 1.15(a) and (b); Maryland Rules 16-607 and 16-609; and BOP § 10-306 by depositing improper funds into his trust account and using client funds for personal purposes
• disbarring an attorney who misappropriated client funds and then provided Bar Counsel with altered ledgers to hide his misconduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).