TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jul 12, 2018
Alan C. Lee received a public censure on Monday from the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Lee issued two checks from his trust account to two clients for settlement funds to those clients. At the end of the month, he mistakenly believed the two checks had been cashed by the clients, so he took the remaining funds on those matters as a fee. The two clients later cashed the checks, and the checks were covered by other funds in the account. Lee discovered the error, but did not replace the funds in his trust account which had been inadvertently taken as a fee for almost two months.
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