A veteran Manhattan attorney has been immediately suspended from practicing law, pending further potential discipline, after not submitting a “responsive” answer to an ethics complaint and bank records indicating that he misappropriated about $1.4 million in client funds when he was purportedly entitled to at most $880,000, according to a state appeals court.

Bradley S. Gross, who was admitted to the New York state bar in 1992, has been immediately suspended by the Appellate Division, First Department court.