In Re Brody

The Review Board of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission has recommended to us that the respondent, Merton Brody, who was admitted to the bar of this State in 1950, be suspended from the practice of law for one year. The Review Board had affirmed findings of the Hearing Panel that the respondent had commingled and converted to his own use $500 in escrow funds which had been entrusted to him and that he had thereby been guilty of unethical conduct that tended to defeat the administration of justice and bring the profession into disrepute. The Hearing Panel’s recommendation…