In Re Kanu

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that attorney lacks moral fitness due to “lack of responsiveness and dishonesty to her clients, Bar Counsel and the Hearing Committee”
• considering the difficulty to detect the misconduct an aggravating factor because of the need to protect the public, the courts, and the legal profession
• explaining the purpose of attorney discipline to “protect the public, the courts, and the legal profession.”
• attorney’s lies to clients “compounded her misconduct,” and court “must view the injury to [attorney’s] clients as an aggravating factor”
• “[T]he decision to disbar [the] attorney because of misappropriation of funds makes it unnecessary to consider an additional rule violation.”
• consideration of both realized and potential harm to client

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).