Opinion ID: 1379246
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 20

Heading: The Bryant Matter

Text: Rosa Bryant retained Respondent to get a court date for her and her husband in a grandparent visitation matter and paid Respondent a legal fee. No court date was ever provided. After approximately three months, Respondent summoned the Bryants to his office and told them he had filed a lawsuit on their behalf. Mrs. Bryant told Respondent that was not what they had hired him to do. Mrs. Bryant later learned that Respondent had copied another attorney's work, hired by Mrs. Bryant's son. Respondent never appeared in court at any time on the Bryants' behalf. Respondent never made any refund or accounting to the Bryants as to how he applied their attorney's fees. Bryant filed a letter of complaint with the Commission on Lawyer Conduct and Respondent failed to respond to the subsequent inquiries and investigation.