Attorney Grievance Commission v. Smith

Attorney discipline cases that result in disbarment often find the attorney committing one of the seven deadly sins— e.g., greed, lust, sloth. This is not one of those cases. The sin in this case was inattention — inattention to clients, inattention to an attorney trust account, and inattention to the activities of a non-lawyer assistant in whom the attorney misplaced his trust and who misused the attorney trust account to the detriment of the. attorney’s clients. Sadly, this too merits disbarment, as our regulation of the practice of law must protect the public not only from those attorneys…