Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Mar. 1, 2014
'Pillar of Hispanic community' suspended two years for mismanged trust account
A Los Angeles lawyer who let his nonlawyer brother oversee his office and trust account should be suspended two years for inadvertently misappropriating $42,000, the State Bar Court said.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A longtime Los Angeles lawyer who's highly respected in the Latino community should be suspended for two years for failing to fully pay settlement funds to a client because the attorney's nonlawyer brother mismanaged his client trust account, the State Bar Court has ruled.
For three decades, Mario Estuardo Diaz "has been a leader and a role model in his community as a tireless supp...
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