Legal Opinion

Weiss v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline

Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)

Decided July 31, 1998No. 04-96-00549-CVPublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

JOHN G. HILL, Justice.

Joe W. Weiss appeals from a judgment disbarring him from the practice of law in the State of Texas. He presents twenty-nine points of error.

We reform the judgment to delete the trial court’s finding that Weiss, in knowingly failing to surrender papers to which his former clients, the Del Castillos, were entitled, to their prejudice, violated Texas Disciplinary Rule of Professional Conduct 1.15(d) and to delete the sanction imposed in connection with this finding. We affirm the judgment as reformed for the reasons set forth in this opinion.

In 1993 Weiss’s law firm…

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