TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 16, 2021

Davidson County lawyer Ivan Omar Lopez was censured Monday for violating Rule of Professional Conduct Rule 1.15. The court found that in the representation of two clients, Lopez paid the full cost of medical bills out of his operating account rather than paying a portion out of his trust account and the rest out of his operating account as he should have. When he discovered the error, Lopez made a second error in depositing too much into trust, resulting in commingling of $3,149 of his funds with his client funds for two weeks. The court found that his conduct was negligent, not intentional, and did not result in harm to his clients or to the medical provider at issue. As a condition of the censure, the court directed him to attend the Board of Professional Responsibility’s next Trust Account Workshop.