Attorney Grievance Comm'n v. Farmer

Summary

The Court adopted the hearing judge's factual findings and legal conclusions that Farmer engaged in unauthorized practice of law, represented clients with conflicting interests, charged unreasonable fees, and filed a frivolous lawsuit, violating multiple professional-conduct rules. The Court rejected Farmer's jurisdictional, evidentiary, due-process, and merits-based exceptions and imposed an indefinite suspension. The Court declined to decide whether Farmer also violated the dishonesty and criminal-act provisions because doing so would not affect the sanction.