Opinion ID: 2222122
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: client khancount seventeen

Text: ¶ 47. The OLR complaint alleges, and Sherry now stipulates, that in March 1999 Mohamad S. Khan retained Sherry to represent Khan in collecting a security deposit purportedly wrongly retained by the buyer of rental property previously owned by one Noreen Khan. Mohamad Khan paid Sherry an advance of $102 for costs; Sherry, however, did not file a lawsuit on Khan's behalf. ¶ 48. Despite Khan's request Sherry failed to return the $102 and failed to deliver Khan's file to Khan's new attorney. ¶ 49. This course of conduct led to Count Seventeen in the OLR's complaint against Sherry to which he now stipulates.
¶ 50. By failing to return the $102 in advance costs and by failing to deliver Khan's file to his new attorney, Sherry failed to surrender papers and property to which a client was entitled and refund any advance payment of fees that had not been earned, in violation of SCR 20:1.16(d).