The Lawyer Who Violates the Rules of Professional Conduct Must Be Disciplined

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When a lawyer violates the Rules of Professional Conduct, he or she can be disciplined by the local bar association and/or the state’s supreme court. Each state has its own disciplinary system managed by a group of investigators, lawyers and administrative law judges.

A lawyer who settled a case without client authorization, charged interest on money that he loaned to a client, converted client funds, failed to cooperate with state in an investigation, and provided false statements to the state is misconduct that amounts to a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct in Louisiana. [Louisiana State Bar Ass’n v. Reis, 513 So. 2d 1173 (La. 1987).” In re Bell (La., 2019)]