Attorney Grievance Commission v. Pattison

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a “loan” taken by attorney from estate funds, although later repaid with interest, constituted “an inexcusable and unjustified breach of his fiduciary obligations to the estate and a serious invasion of the integrity of the assets of the estate”
• finding Rules violation because “[i]t is fundamental that a fiduciary may not make a loan, secured or unsecured (as was this), unto himself’
• “It is fundamental that a fiduciary may not make a loan, secured or unsecured (as was this), unto himself.”
• “loan” taken by attorney from estate funds, although later repaid with interest, constituted “an inexcusable and unjustified breach of his fiduciary obligations to the estate and a serious invasion of the integrity of the assets of the estate”
• “fiduciary may not make a loan, secured or unsecured, unto himself”
• dealing with purpose of disciplinary proceedings in general

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).