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- Title: In re Ross
- Author : District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
- Release Date : January 18, 1995
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 47 KB
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TERRY, Associate Judge: The Board on Professional Responsibility has recommended that respondent, a member of our bar, be suspended from the practice of law for thirty days for violating Rule 1.15 (a) of the Rules of Professional Conduct, which prohibits commingling funds, and Rule 1.15 (b), which requires an attorney to advise a third party of settlement proceeds in his or her possession and to pay over those proceeds promptly upon settlement. The hearing committee, concluding that there were mitigating circumstances, proposed that respondent be publicly censured. The Board agreed with the hearing committee's findings of disciplinary violations but found no mitigating circumstances. It therefore recommended, in light of this court's prior warnings against commingling, that respondent be suspended for thirty days. We hold that the Board's findings are supported by the evidence and adopt its recommendation. I