Probate Attorney Resigns in Face of Disciplinary Action

A Texas attorney faced with a disciplinary action for outrageous conduct resigned from the practice of law.

Here is a summary of his evil conduct as described in Disciplinary Actions, 70 Tex. B.J. 274, 267-77 (2007):

[Attorney] was appointed the guardian of the person and estate of his aunt by the presiding probate judge * * *. The probate court had established various safekeeping accounts for the maintenance of the cash assets of the guardianship estate. Beginning in 2003, [Attorney] secured false probate court documents, including orders containing the forged signature of the presiding judge, and presented these documents to various financial institutions as legitimate authorizations to release funds belonging to the guardianship estate.  [Attorney] failed to make an accounting of the estate funds as required by law.