NOTICE OF REVOCATION AND RESTITUTION Case Nos. 98-168-GA; 98-195-FA Harry S. Sherwin, P-20365, Flint, Michigan, by Attorney Discipline Board Genesee County Hearing Panel #3.
1) Revocation; 2) Effective September 21, 2003. Respondent was retained by six separate complainants in a variety of matters, and was paid fees totalling $38,490. The panel found, by default, that respondent neglected and abandoned five of the matters; failed to refund unearned fees upon demand in all six matters; charged an excessive fee in one matter; failed to answer all six Requests for Investigation; and failed to answer the Formal Complaints. Respondent also failed to appear at the disciplinary hearing.
The panel concluded that respondent's conduct violated MCR 9.103(C); MCR 9.104(1)-(4) and (7); MCR 9.113(A) and (B)(2); and Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct 1.1(a)-(c); 1.2(a); 1.3; 1.4(a); 1.5(a); 1.16(d); 3.2; 8.1(b); and 8.4(a)-(c).
The panel ordered that respondent's license to practice law be revoked effective September 21, 2003, to run consecutive to the revocation ordered in Case Nos. 98-143-GA; 98-166-FA, and that he make restitution to the complainants in the total amount of $35,550. Costs were assessed in the amount of $447.08.