Attorney Grievance Commission v. Velasquez

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• holding that a Maryland attorney should be disbarred after practicing law in Virginia without being admitted to the Virginia Bar
• holding that engaging in the unauthorized practice of law reflected the actor’s unfitness to practice law, and fraud, deceit, and misrepresentation were reflected in his failure to disclose his lack of licensure
• stating that an attorney’s failure to respond to his client after accepting a retainer payment and not filing anything with the court constitutes abandonment of the client
• concluding that the respondent’s practice of law without a license, failure to communicate that fact to his client, and acceptance of fees for legal work that he could not perform demonstrated conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation under Rule 8.4(c)
• “Combining the respondent’s lack of a license to practice law ... with his failure to render any meaningful services in connection with the representation he had undertaken and noting the respondent’s collection and retention of a fee, the hearing judge found a violation of Rule 1.5(a
• in which a Maryland attorney was disbarred for practicing law in Virginia without being admitted to the Virginia bar

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).