Opinion
D-33 071794
01-08-2020
IN THE MATTER OF JOEL LEE SCHWARTZ, AN ATTORNEY AT LAW (Attorney No. 046611995)
ORDER
The Disciplinary Review Board having filed with the Court its decision in DRB 12-142, concluding that JOEL LEE SCHWARTZ of NORTHFIELD, who was admitted to the bar of this State in 1995, should be censured for violating RPC 1.5(c)(failure to provide client with a written statement of the outcome of the matter and showing the remittance to the client and the method of its determination), RPC 1.7(conflict of interest), RPC 1.8(a) (improperly entering into a business transaction with a client), and ACPE Opinion 657, 130 N.J.L.J. 656 (February 24, 1992)(requiring lawyers to keep their law practices separate from their business enterprises), and good cause appearing;
It is ORDERED that JOEL LEE SCHWARTZ is hereby censured; and it is further
ORDERED that the entire record of this matter be made a permanent part of respondent's file as an attorney at law of this State; and it is further
ORDERED that respondent reimburse the Disciplinary Oversight Committee for appropriate administrative costs and actual expenses incurred in the prosecution of this matter, as provided in Rule 1:20-17.
WITNESS, the Honorable Stuart Rabner, Chief Justice, at Trenton, this 8th day of January, 2013.
/s/
CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT