Supreme Court of Louisiana
In Re: Patrick A. Giraud
June 26, 2019
Summary
The Supreme Court of Louisiana affirmed the disciplinary board’s recommendation, suspending attorney Patrick A. Giraud for one year and one day with six months of actual suspension and the remainder deferred, followed by two years of unsupervised probation and specific conditions. The court found that Giraud’s misuse of client trust funds to support his opioid addiction violated the Rules of Professional Conduct and warranted a period of actual suspension despite mitigating factors.