In re McDonagh

Respondent was admitted to practice by this Court in 2011. He maintains an office for the practice of law in the City of Albany.

By petition of charges dated July 23, 2014, petitioner charged respondent with, among other things, breaching his fiduciary duty to clients, knowingly utilizing client funds for his personal purposes and failing to safeguard and properly monitor funds in his attorney escrow account and a bank account established for the benefit of an incapacitated person for whom he was the approved guardian and representative payee. The petition specifies that respondent allowed his…