LOUISIANA STATE BAR ASS'N v. BODDIE

No. 87-B-1860.

534 So.2d 944 (1988)

LOUISIANA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION v. O. Bernard BODDIE.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied January 19, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas O. Collins, Jr., Anne LaCour Neeb, New Orleans, Gerard F. Thomas, Natchitoches, Roland J. Achee, Shreveport, Robert J. Boudreau, Lake Charles, Robert M. Contois, New Orleans, Frank J. Gremillion, Baton Rouge, Carrick R. Inabnett, Monroe, Harvey Lewis, New Orleans, Alfred S. Landry, New Iberia, Philippi P. St. Pe, Metairie, for applicant.

O. Bernard Boddie, Bossier City, pro se.

J.B. Wells, Bossier City, for respondent.


DENNIS Justice.

In this attorney disciplinary case, after considering the evidence and arguments of counsel, we find that the respondent lawyer, O. Bernard Boddie, violated disciplinary rules by negligently converting $712.09 of his clients' funds and failing promptly to pay or deliver such funds as requested by his clients. Considering aggravating and mitigating circumstances, we suspend the respondent attorney from the practice of law for one year.

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