Attorney Grievance Commission v. Steinberg

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an attorney violated MARPC 8.4(c) by misrepresenting to his client that he had filed a bankruptcy petition on her behalf
• holding that the attorney violated MLRPC 1.4 by failing to return her client’s file until “much later” after representation was terminated, despite client’s repeated requests
• holding that attorney’s “inexcusable six-month delay in -withdrawing formally from the court case, after his representation was terminated, demonstrates a lack of requisite diligence and promptness.”
• concluding that an attorney violated Rule 3.2, in part, as a result of his lack of communication with the client during litigation
• stating that an attorney who canceled two deposition dates, because of a “sick relative who required medical attention,” violated MLRPC 3.2
• holding that where an attorney received service of process and provided no valid reason for his failure to participate in the proceedings, the attorney’s “failure to appear at the hearing [was] inexcusable” and that the order of default was proper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).