In re Boyce

The State Bar of Georgia brought disciplinary proceedings against the respondent, charging him with violations of the following Standards of State Bar Rule 4-102: Standard 4 (professional conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or wilful disregard of a legal matter); Standard 43 (handling a matter which the lawyer knows or should know that he is clearly incompetent to handle without associating with him a lawyer who he reasonably believes to be competent to handle it); Standard 44 (wilful abandonment or disregard of a legal matter); Standard 63 (failure to maintain complete records and…