Court Opinion

ID: 9576162
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:21:21.478459+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:01:25.877727
License: Public Domain

Gregory, Justice
(dissenting) :
I respectfully dissent.
I am in accord with the findings of misconduct by the hearing panel and would adopt the panel’s recommendation *317of a private reprimand as the appropriate sanction. The fee in my view was “clearly excessive” by exactly $500.00.1 I would also require repayment of that amount as a condition of the private reprimand.

 This amount charged the complainant, without prior authorization, was paid to another attorney for his assistance to respondent in the case. Respondent’s counsel does not seriously contest that the handling of this portion of the fee was, at best, ill-advised.