DISCIPLINARY COUNSEL v. SMIGELSKI

No. 31504.

4 A.3d 336 (2010)

124 Conn.App. 81

DISCIPLINARY COUNSEL v. Jacek I. SMIGELSKI.

Appellate Court of Connecticut.

Decided September 28, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Sullivan , Hartford, with whom was Jacek I. Smigelski , pro se, for the appellant (defendant).

Suzanne B. Sutton , assistant chief disciplinary counsel, for the appellee (plaintiff).

BISHOP, HARPER and PETERS, Js.


PETERS, J.

The principal issue in this appeal from the imposition of disciplinary sanctions on an attorney is whether, having found initially that a contingent fee agreement was neither unlawful nor unethical, the trial court nonetheless properly sanctioned the attorney for having charged an unreasonable fee and for having disbursed the fee to himself in an unreasonable manner. Under the circumstances of this case, in which the attorney improperly calculated the amount...

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