# In Re Micheel

> District of Columbia Court of Appeals · May 19, 1992 · 610 A.2d 231

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9694573

## Case

- **Full name:** In Re Richard A. MICHEEL, Respondent. a Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals
- **Court:** District of Columbia Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** May 19, 1992
- **Citations:** 610 A.2d 231; 1992 D.C. App. LEXIS 137; 1992 WL 110316
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Schwelb
- **Judges:** Ferren, Terry, Schwelb
- **Cited by:** 93 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9694573

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding reckless disregard where attorney “made no attempt to keep track of his client’s funds, but indiscriminately wrote checks on the account at a time when he knew or should have known that the account was overdrawn”
- holding that the question of whether a misappropriation was negligent is an ultimate fact

## Opinion text

SCHWELB, Associate Judge,
concurring:
I remain of the opinion that this court’s relentlessly unforgiving approach to misappropriation cases like this one is difficult to reconcile with what I view as substantially greater and sometimes excessive leniency towards violations involving far more dishonorable conduct. See In re Addams, 579 A.2d 190 , 209-10 & nn. 16-20 (D.C.1979) (en banc) (Schwelb, J., concurring). In light of the decision in Addams, however, I am constrained in this case to join the opinion of the court.

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