Opinion
November 29, 2001.
ORDER
The Office of Disciplinary Counsel petitions this Court for an order transferring respondent, whose practice was formerly located at 3922 Rosewood Drive, Columbia, South Carolina, to incapacity inactive status pursuant to Rule 17(b), RLDE, Rule 413, SCACR. Respondent consents to the petition.
IT IS ORDERED that respondent is transferred to incapacity inactive status until further order of this Court.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Edwin Russell Jeter, Jr., Esquire, is hereby appointed to assume responsibility for respondent's client files, trust account(s), escrow account(s), operating account(s), and any other accounts into which respondent may have deposited client or trust monies. Mr. Jeter shall take action as required by Rule 31, RLDE, Rule 413, SCACR, to protect the interests of respondent's clients. Mr. Jeter has authority to make disbursements from respondent's trust, escrow, and/or operating account(s) as is reasonably necessary and may apply to the Chair of the Commission on Lawyer Conduct for authority to make any disbursements that appear to be unusual or out of the ordinary.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this Order, when served on any bank or other financial institution maintaining trust, escrow and/or operating account(s) of respondent, shall serve as notice to the bank or other financial institution that Edwin Russell Jeter, Jr., Esquire, has been duly appointed by this Court.
Finally, this Order, when served on any office of the United States Postal Service, shall serve as notice that Edwin Russell Jeter, Jr., Esquire, has been duly appointed by this Court and has the authority to receive respondent's mail and the authority the direct that respondent's mail be delivered to Mr. Jeter's office.
s/ Jean H. Toal, C.J.