In Re Kline’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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1. “The appropriate question ... is simply this: If all of the matters were before the Board simultaneously, what would we recommend as the appropriate discipline?”). . To be fair, respondent corrected this misstatement when prodded by Bar Counsel, and he asserts that it was basically true and inaccurate only because he subsequently had a relapse several months later. Nonetheless, the Hearing Committee made a credibility determination that respondent initially lied. . Report and Recommendation of the Board on Professional Responsibility (hereinafter,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Silva

2. “dishonesty and deceit toward both his client and an adversary to cover up the neglect of his client's case; the criminal act of forgery; the deliberate failure to communicate with his client about the status and direction of the case; and the deliberate frustration of the client's objective by settling the case, through a false agreement, without the client's permission.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Silva

3. “[t]here is nothing more antithetical to the practice of law than dishonesty,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Olekanma A. Ekekwe-Kauffman