In Re Newman

Attorney Discipline Action Hearing Officer Barbara Collins

We find that Respondent, Lawrence T. Newman, engaged in attorney misconduct by failing to comply with a client’s reasonable requests for an accounting of the hours he worked prior to being discharged, by charging an unreasonable fee, by failing to withdraw from representation promptly after being discharged, and by failing to return the client’s file after its retention was no longer necessary to secure payment of his fee.

For this misconduct, committed with the motivation of gaining unfair leverage in his fee dispute with his client,…