Attorney Grievance Comm'n of Md. v. Donnelly

This attorney discipline proceeding involves a lawyer who was a member of a limited liability company and had been designated as the company's counsel. As counsel for the company, the lawyer, who had no prior history of disciplinary action, in a lapse of judgment, apparently brought about by his dual role as counsel and a member of the company, engaged in actions not authorized by the company. The lawyer filed a complaint for partition of property against one of the company's members who owned property jointly with the company, and drafted and executed a document assigning the company's…