In re PRB Docket No. 2012.155

¶ 1.

Office of Disciplinary Counsel appeals the determination of the Hearing Panel of the Professional Responsibility Board that attorney should receive a private admonition sanction for violating Vermont Rule of Professional Conduct 1.15 by commingling personal and client funds in his client trust account. We affirm.

¶ 2. The parties stipulated to the following facts. Attorney was admitted to the Vermont bar in 1983. He worked as a solo practitioner and independent contractor until 1986, at which time he signed on as an associate with another law firm. In 1997, he again established his own…