Hampton v. Bank of LaFayette

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Respondent violated MLRPC 1.16(d) when he “did not return, in a timely manner, the documents and fees” of his client
• noting that sanctions are imposed “to insist upon the maintenance of the integrity of the bar and to prevent the transgressions of an individual lawyer from bringing its image into disrepute”
• failing to respond to Bar Counsel after being asked repeatedly, promising to do so, and then never doing so, constituted a violation of Rule 8.1(b)
• finding a pattern of misconduct where an attorney neglected four clients
• attorney violated MLRPC 1.3 by being routinely unavailable to Ghent’s attempts to contact him and providing very little information when eventually reached
• “Bar Counsel asked repeatedly [for the lawyer] to respond to the Petition, but he did not.... [The lawyer’s conduct is in violation of MLRPC 8.1(b).”

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