San Diego, CA 92115-3922
17 March 2007 | Disbarred (18 years, 3 months ago) Disbarment 05-O-03047 |
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20 December 2006 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (18 years, 6 months ago) Vol.inactive(tender of resign.w/charges) |
1 October 2006 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (18 years, 8 months ago) Ordered inactive 05-O-03047 |
23 June 2006 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (18 years, 12 months ago) Ordered inactive 05-O-03047 |
8 May 2006 | Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 05-O-03047 (19 years, 1 month ago) |
10 December 1985 | Admitted to the State Bar of California (39 years, 6 months ago) |
March 17, 2007 BESSIE MAE CARR [#121368], 48, of San Diego was disbarred March 17, 2007, and was ordered to comply with rule 955. In a default proceeding, the State Bar Court found that Carr misappropriated $83,544.85 from a client and failed to cooperate with the bar’s investigation.In a divorce proceeding in which Carr represented the husband, she received the proceedings from the sale of the couple’s house. She received two checks, totaling $96,634.20, that she deposited in her client trust account, but repeatedly allowed the balance to fall well below the required amount.She also did not return 15 phone calls from her client, who fired her and hired a new lawyer. When the court ordered Carr to release all funds to the new lawyer, she did not do so.The bar court found that Carr violated a court order, failed to communicate with a client or cooperate with the bar’s investigation, and she misappropriated client funds, an act involving moral turpitude. |