In Re Gastineau

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that lawyer violated the duty to provide competent representa- tion by failing to review documents prepared by legal staff and by attempting to file those documents with incorrect filing fees
• holding attorney violated DR 2-106(A) by failing to promptly remit unearned portion of fee
• applying ABA Standard 9.32(m) when the lawyer’s earlier misconduct had occurred 19 years earlier, shortly after his admission to practice
• exacting a second fee for the same work as that for which first flat fee was paid violates excessive fee prohibition
• discussing the subject and its remedies as a professional disciplinary matter
• “If a lawyer does a poor job, but the client fortuitously or through the efforts of others obtains a good result, that does not excuse the lawyer from providing competent representation or justify neglecting the case.”

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