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By Janis M. Meyer Any law student who has taken a legal ethics course knows that converting or otherwise misappropriating the funds of a client or third party entrusted to a lawyer’s care provides a surefire route to suspension or disbarment. The logical...
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By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR April 2007] [Editor’s note: This is the first of a series on misappropriation of client funds by lawyers holding escrow deposits.] Although the number of offending lawyers is small, and the total of...
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By Lazar Emanuel [Originally published in NYPRR November 2002] The case of Hynes v. Citibank, NA [Sup. Ct., Queens Cty., Oct. 2002], outlines the procedure to follow when a single practitioner dies leaving undisbursed client funds in his attorney...
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By Joseph S. Genova [Originally published in NYPRR July 2000] [Editor’s note: This is Part II of a two-part article. Part I was published in NYPRR April 2000.] After trial, following remand from the Supreme Court, Judge James R. Nowlin performed an...
