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ATTORNEY GRIEV. COMM'N v. ABB

Misc. (Subtitle BV) No. 24, September Term, 1985.

306 Md. 636 (1986)

510 A.2d 1087

ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE COMMISSION OF MARYLAND, v. IRVING V.M. ABB.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin Hirshman, Bar Counsel, for Attorney Grievance Com'n of Maryland.

Edward P. Camus, Riverdale, and Charles Duvall Smith, Upper Marlboro, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH and McAULIFFE, JJ.

McAULIFFE, Judge.

We here determine that Irving V.M. Abb is guilty of professional misconduct in the handling of a decedent's estate, and that a sixty day suspension from the practice of law is the appropriate sanction.

The misconduct occurred in Abb's handling of the estate of Sarah Elizabeth West, and principally consists of neglect, DR 6-101(A)(3), and of charging a clearly excessive fee, DR 2-106(A). Abb does not take issue with the finding of neglect...

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