Kentucky State Bar Ass'n v. Smith

The Board of Governors of the Kentucky State Bar Association has recommended that Emmett B. Smith be suspended from engaging in the practice of law in the State of Kentucky for a period of one year.

Smith was charged with four different instances of unprofessional and unethical conduct involving his failure to properly keep and pay over money deposited with him by a client to be paid over to a trustee in bankruptcy; failure to properly apply moneys received on behalf of another client incident to the settlement of litigation; failure to institute a divorce action within a reasonable time after…