Serial Neglect • Unearned Fees • Failing to Communicate
Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Wray, PICS Case No. 17-1195 (Pa. July 6, 2017) per curiam, (23 pages).
Respondent was disciplined for serial neglect, failing to communicate, retaining unearned fees, failing to take steps to remedy the neglect and failing to respond to inquiries from disciplinary authorities where he failed to appear for clients’ trials without notifying the court or the clients and orally agreed to file an appeal for five clients, charged them an advanced flat fee without obtaining informed consent to handle the fee in a different manner than required by RPC 1.15(I), failed to file briefs resulting in the dismissals of the appeals and did not communicate with the clients.
