Magee v. State Bar

THE COURT.

Petitioner challenges a finding by the Board of Bar Governors that he abused the confidence placed in him by an aged client, Mary Rohde, in drawing a will naming him the residuary beneficiary of her estate and in accepting a substantial cash gift from her. The board recommended that he be suspended from the practice of law for two years.*

The board’s finding followed two hearings by a local administrative committee. The committee twice concluded that petitioner obtained the testamentary gift and the inter vivos gift *426by undue influence, emphasizing that he had “gained an advantage…