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LOUISIANA STATE BAR ASS'N v. CARPENTER

No. 88-B-0172.

553 So.2d 855 (1989)

LOUISIANA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION v. John D. CARPENTER, Disciplinary Proceeding.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 12, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas O. Collins, Jr., Cheri A. Cotogno, Harvey J. Lewis, Elizabeth A. Alston, Robert J. Boudreau, Trevor G. Bryan, Robert M. Contois, Jr., Frank J. Gremillion, William W. Hall, Carrick R. Inabnett, T. Haller Jackson, III, Christine Lipsey, Edmund McCollam, Gerard F. Thomas, Jr., for applicant.

John D. Carpenter, for respondent.

LEMMON, Justice.

This disciplinary proceeding against a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association is based on a complaint by a client that the attorney neglected the legal matters entrusted to him and failed to refund to the client the unearned portion of the fee advanced to him.

The evidence at the investigatory hearing held pursuant to the complaint established that respondent was hired by Ellis Taylor in January of 1985 to represent Taylor's son in...

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