Attorney Grievance Commission v. Snyder

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• holding that a lawyer’s “dishonest and deceitful conduct with regard to the misuse of his client escrow account alone would be sufficient to warrant ... disbarment”
• holding that a lawyer’s “dishonest and deceitful conduct with regard to the misuse of his client escrow account alone would be sufficient to warrant a sanction of disbarment”
• concluding that the attorney’s “dishonest and deceitful conduct with regard to the misuse of his client escrow account alone would be sufficient to warrant ... disbarment”
• concluding an attorney violated MRPC 8.4(c) when he wrote checks from his escrow account for his own personal purposes during his bankruptcy litigation
• quoting, Attorney Grievance Comm’n v. Korotki, 318 Md. 646, 666, 569 A.2d 1224, 1234 (1990) (citation omitted)
• noting that the attorney had received a private reprimand in a prior proceeding for violating Maryland’s Rule 8.4 (c) by failing to pay 401(k) contributions that had been withheld from employee salaries within 90 days of the deductions as required by law

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