Ruci v. Clients' Security Board

The plaintiff filed a claim for compensation with *738the Clients’ Security Board (board)1 based on the failure of his attorney, Dennis Jackson, to account to him for the unearned portion of a fee paid to Jackson to represent him in a murder case. The facts of Jackson’s defalcation had previously been established in a proceeding before the Board of Bar Overseers which resulted in his three-year suspension from the practice of law. The plaintiff filed the record of the findings and rulings in that case in support of his claim. Nevertheless, the board dismissed the plaintiff’s claim, “because of…