Attorney, as Agent for Mother, Misappropriates Over $1.2 Million

On September 25, 2006, a Texas lawyer resigned from the practice of law rather than face discipline.

The lawyer’s mother designated her as her agent in a power of attorney.  The trust mother had in her daughter was misplaced; her daughter subsequently misappropriated a whopping $1,214,367 of her mother’s property for the lawyer’s own personal gain.

When the lawyer’s actions came to light, a guardianship battle ensued and the probate court ordered her to render an accounting.  She failed to do so.

See Disciplinary Actions, 70 Tex. B. J. 90, at 94 (2007).