MEMBERS LOUANN VAN DERWIELE CHAIRPERSON REV. MICHAEL MURRAY VICE-CHAIRPERSON DULCE M. FULLER SECRETARY JAMES A. FINK JOHN W. INHULSEN JONATHAN E. LAUDERBACH BARBARA WILLIAMS FORNEY KAREN D. O'DONOGHUE MICHAEL B. RIZIK, JR.
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NOTICE OF REPRIMAND Case No. 15-87-GA
Notice Issued: June 15, 2017 Carl L. Collins, III, P 55982, Southfield, Michigan, by the Attorney Discipline Board Tri County Hearing Panel #81.
Reprimand, Effective June 15, 2017. After proceedings in accordance with MCR 9.115, the hearing panel found that respondent neglected a legal matter entrusted to him, in violation of MRPC 1.1 (c); failed to seek the lawful objectives of a client through reasonably available means permitted by law, in violation of MRPC 1.2(a); failed to act with reasonable diligence and promptness in representing a client, in violation of MRPC 1.3; failed to make reasonable efforts to ensure that the firm has in effect measures giving reasonable assurance that all lawyers in the firm conform to the Rules of Professional Conduct, in violation of MRPC 5.1 (a); as a lawyer having direct supervisor authority over other lawyers in his law firm, failed to make reasonable efforts to ensure that the other lawyers conformed to the Rules of Professional Conduct, in violation of MRPC 5.1 (b); maintained funds other than client or third person funds in an IOLT A, in violation of MRPC 1.15(a)(3); and deposited his own funds in a client trust account more than in an amount reasonably necessary to pay financial institution service charges, in violation of MRPC 1.15(f).
The hearing panel ordered that respondent be reprimanded. Total costs were assessed in the amount of $4,926.89.
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