ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE v. HESS

Misc. Docket AG, No. 55, Sept. Term, 1997.

722 A.2d 905 (1999)

352 Md. 438

ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE COMMISSION OF MARYLAND v. Stanford Donald HESS.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 14, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Andrew J. Graham, Baltimore, for Respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, and ROBERT L. KARWACKI (retired, specially assigned), JJ.


RODOWSKY, Judge.

Between 1985 and 1987 the respondent, Stanford Donald Hess (Hess), while a partner in a major Baltimore law firm, consistently and falsely inflated the hours worked by attorneys at the firm on the matters of a dominant, but difficult, client. At least one purpose of the artificial increase was to offset a fifteen percent discount which the firm had agreed to give to the client for prompt payment which, as Hess anticipated, never materialized. The...

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