Samuel Lee Hart was admitted to the California Bar 18th December 1975, but has since been disbarred. Samuel graduated from Whittier Coll SOL.
Lawyer Information
| Name | Samuel Lee Hart |
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| First Admitted | 18 December 1975 (49 years, 4 months ago) |
| Status | Disbarred |
| Bar Number | 66135 |
Contact
| Current Email | [email protected] |
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| Phone Number | 818-992-4225 |
| Fax Number | 818-992-4335 |
Schools
| Law School | Whittier Coll SOL (CA) |
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| Undergraduate School | University of Southern Calif (Los Angeles CA) |
Address
| Current Address | PO Box 4807 West Hills, CA 91308 |
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History
| 9 February 2012 | Disbarred (13 years, 2 months ago) Disbarment 10-O-09997 |
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| 18 September 2011 | Not eligible to practice law in CA (13 years, 7 months ago) Ordered inactive 10-O-09997 |
| 5 July 2011 | Disciplinary charges filed in State Bar Court 10-O-09997 (13 years, 10 months ago) |
| 27 August 1993 | Discipline, probation; no actual susp. 91-O-03576 (31 years, 8 months ago) |
| 18 December 1975 | Admitted to the State Bar of California (49 years, 4 months ago) |
Discipline Summaries
February 9, 2012 SAMUEL LEE HART, 68, of West Hills was disbarred Feb. 9, 2012, and was ordered to make restitution and comply with rule 9.20 of the California Rules of Court. Hart stipulated to eight counts of misconduct in two matters, including misappropriating $201,081.70 from a client. In that matter, he represented the administrator of an estate, and filed an accounting of $441,976.83 from the sale of a home and a piece of desert real property valued at $1,500. He was required to maintain more than $200,000 in his client trust account for one of the beneficiaries, but he never gave the man any money and allowed the balance of his trust account to fall to $31.36. He never accounted for the funds and did not respond to either a new lawyer for the beneficiary or a bar investigator.In the second matter, Hart received two checks for a client - for $8,317.26 and $256.81 - but did not provide any funds to the client. Hart misappropriated $8,542.71, committing an act of moral turpitude.Hart was disciplined in 1993. In mitigation, he cooperated with the bar by resolving the issue early. |