The Florida Bar v. Smith

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• holding that \extraordinary sloppiness and negligence\ satisfy the intent element for finding a violation of rule 4-8.4(c)
• imposing suspension where “financial mismanagement was the product of extraordinary sloppiness and negligence in bookkeeping, rather than misappropriation or an intent to deceive [lawyer’s] clients.”
• finding a pattern of misconduct for neglect that extended over one and a half years, and multiple offenses for a recommendation of guilt for thirteen rule violations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).