Matter of Discipline of Gubbins

Because I’m convinced the continual conduct of respondent in the mishandling of his law office financial affairs merits a long period of suspension, if, indeed, not an out and out disbarment, I dissent.

While it is true that none of respondent’s clients sustained any financial losses as the result of his cavalier handling of their funds, the fact undisputedly remains that those funds were at risk for long periods of time. This court has not hesitated to indefinitely suspend nor to disbar merely because clients have not sustained financial loss from improper mishandling of their funds. See,…