State Moves to Suspend Lawyer

State Moves to Suspend Lawyer


The Indiana Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Commission filed an emergency petition to suspend the law license of local attorney Daniel E. Serban, citing criminal charges filed against him.

Serban, of Roanoke, faces charges of corrupt business influence, forgery, and two counts of theft. Charged last September, he is accused of failing to distribute money paid into the Serban Law Office’s Trust Account to clients or to those entitled by court order to receive it.

After his arrest, Serban told police some of the money he used to pay off the original client, after he was confronted, had been taken from money put into the trust account for an estate. He told investigators he forged the name of the estate’s personal representative on the check.

Attorneys are required to keep escrow-type accounts where money either coming from or going to their clients will be kept. Those accounts are to be treated with extreme fiduciary care, and attorneys have a strong ethical responsibility to protect that money.

Full Article and Source:

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110215/LOCAL03/302159937

State Moves to Suspend Accused Roanoke Lawyer

Editor's note: Ft. Wayne residents are astounded by this article.  This fraud and forgery is an everyday event in the Probate Court of Cook County. Worse yet, most of it is covered up by "machine politics" and is rarely punished.  Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com