In re Gjini

2 Citing cases

  1. In re Deirdre Paulette Brown for Admission to the Bar of Md.

    449 Md. 669 (Md. 2016)   Cited 5 times
    Holding that "Ms. Brown’s actions … are indicative of a cumulative pattern of a lack of honesty and candor[]"

    Application of Stern, 403 Md. at 634 , 943 A.2d at 1258 . In the case, In re Application of Gjini, 448 Md. 524 , 141 A.3d 16 (2016), Misc. No. 32, September Term, 2016 (filed July 7, 2016), we denied the admission of an applicant who failed to disclose a Petition to Violate Probation and its attendant Show Cause Order on his Bar application. Similarly, in In re Application of Brown, 392 Md. 44 , 45-46, 57-58, 895 A.2d 1050 , 1050-51, 1057-58 (2006), we denied the admission of an applicant who, inter alia, omitted his federal conviction for bank fraud on both his law school and Bar application.

  2. Attorney Grievance Comm'n of Md. v. Thomas-Bellamy

    450 Md. 516 (Md. 2016)

    This Court has typically denied admission to bar applicants who fail to disclose adverse information requested on the Maryland bar application. SeeApplication of Deirdre Paulette Brown, 449 Md. 669, 144 A.3d 1188 (2016) (denying admission to applicant who was “less than candid” about a past felony theft charge and who deliberately falsified her law school grade point average in order to obtain an interview with a prospective employer); In re Application of Strzempek , 407 Md. 102, 962 A.2d 988 (2008) (failure to report conviction for driving while intoxicated); In re Application of Emsean L. Brown , 392 Md. 44, 895 A.2d 1050 (2006) (failure to report conviction for bank fraud); In re Application of Gjini , 448 Md. 524, 141 A.3d 16 (2016) (failure to disclose that the applicant had been served with a Petition to Violate Probation and that a District Court, in connection with that Petition, found that he had not properly satisfied an alcohol education program); In re Application of Stern , 403 Md. 615, 943 A.2d 1247 (2008) (failure to disclose past litigation for delinquent credit accounts and current delinquencies). Disbarment