Court Opinion

ID: 9795458
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 03:29:23.197861+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:30:01.923485
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KAUGER, J.,
concurring, with whom OPALA and COLBERT, JJ., join:
¶ 1 Within the last seven months we have considered two other bar matters which have involved the withdrawal of funds from trust accounts. In April of this year, in State ex rel. Oklahoma Bar Association v. Franklin, 2007 OK 18, ¶ 25, 163 P.3d 507, we suspended a lawyer for two years and one day for conduct constituting a breach of fiduciary duty as trustee which included lending money to himself and his friends. More recently, in September, in State ex rel. Oklahoma Bar Association v. Combs, 2007 OK 65, ¶ 39, 175 P.3d 340, we suspended a lawyer for ninety days for conduct involving mishandling and commingling client funds. Because today’s cause involves additional counts of inadequate representation, I agree that more severe discipline is warranted than that which was imposed in either Franklin, supra or Combs, supra.