ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE v. SMITH

Misc. Docket AG No. 73, September Term, 2013.

116 A.3d 977 (2015)

443 Md. 351

ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE COMMISSION OF MARYLAND v. Earl Americus SMITH.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 23, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond A. Hein , Deputy Bar Counsel ( Glenn M. Grossman , Bar Counsel, Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland), for Petitioner.

Leonard Casalino, Esquire (Dunkirk, MD), for Respondent.

Argued before: BARBERA, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, McDONALD, LAWRENCE F. RODOWSKY (Retired, Specially Assigned), DALE R. CATHELL (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.


Attorney discipline cases that result in disbarment often find the attorney committing one of the seven deadly sins — e.g., greed, lust, sloth. This is not one of those cases. The sin in this case was inattention — inattention to clients, inattention to an attorney trust account, and inattention to the activities...

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