A Manhattan lawyer on Tuesday was immediately suspended from practicing law after allegedly taking at least $78,000 from an escrow account that kept buyer deposits in advance of his client’s apartment sale and after admitting he’d personally used his client’s funds during an addiction to methamphetamine, according to a state appeals court opinion.

Roderic D. Boyd, who it appears runs a solo or small practice, according to online information, has been suspended pending further investigation by a grievance committee and possible further ethics discipline, said the Appellate Division, First Department opinion handing down the suspension.