In Re Porges-Dodson

This disciplinary matter is before the Court pursuant to the Report and Recommendation issued by a special master after this Court rejected respondent Ann Porges-Dodson’s earlier-filed petition for voluntary discipline.

The parties stipulated to the following facts: respondent maintained an attorney escrow account; in November 1998 and again in January 1999, she wrote multiple checks on that account causing it to become overdrawn; the first overdraft occurred because respondent’s purse which contained the client funds to be deposited in the account was stolen; those funds were never recovered;…