Legal Opinion
Fry v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline
Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)
Decided October 1, 1998No. 14-97-00485-CVPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
YATES, Justice.
This is an attorney discipline matter. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the Commission for Lawyer Discipline (“the Commission”) on the issue of professional misconduct by Gerald Fry. We affirm.
In January of 1994, Fry was contacted by Ervin McLeggan to discuss the possibility of McLeggan retaining Fry for the appeal of a federal court conviction in Pennsylvania. Fry claims that while he was not the attorney of record for McLeggan in the criminal case, he was hired “to advise him concerning his case, to be the attorney of record for the sentencing, the…
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