Committee on Legal Ethics of the West Virginia State Bar v. Hess

How courts have described this case

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• suspending attorney for conversion of $16,759.97 from client settlement account and $6,189.25 of interest earned by said account
• applying general rule that conversion warrants disbarment of lawyer who misappropriated funds belonging to his firm
• “The repayment of funds wrongfully held by an attorney does not negate a violation of a disciplinary rule.”
• “The repayment of funds wrongfully held by an attorney does not negate a violation of a disciplinary rule.”
• attorney converted funds belonging to firm where there was no dispute as to entitlement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).