Louisiana State Bar Ass'n v. Carpenter

LEMMON, Justice.

This disciplinary proceeding against a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association is based on a complaint by a client that the attorney neglected the legal matters entrusted to him and failed to refund to the client the unearned portion of the fee advanced to him.

The evidence at the investigatory hearing held pursuant to the complaint established that respondent was hired by Ellis Taylor in January of 1985 to represent Taylor’s son in a criminal matter and to represent Taylor in a civil suit arising out of the criminal matter, as well as to handle the emancipation of…