Attorney Gerhard Schauble of British Columbia; thief, repeater

The Law Society of British Columbia presented Gerhard E. Schauble with a law license in 1989 after he graduated from the University of British Columbia Law School.

The Law Society found Gerhard guilty of the following misconduct.

Gerhard’s 1^st bite at the Attorney Misfit Apple Tree

• Admitted to engaging in professional misconduct
• Not entitled to retain fees from client files for himself rather than splitting them with his law firm
• Knowingly and intentionally misappropriated law firm funds (thief)
• Engaged in conduct involving fraud, dishonesty, deceit or misrepresentation
• Absolutely knew he was not entitled to personally retain law firm funds
• Refused to acknowledge wrongful nature of his conduct

As a direct consequence of his misconduct, the cheerleaders for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Law Society punished Gerhard by gifting him with a complimentary 3-month suspension of his law license and ordered to pay $32,000 to the Law Society for its costs.

Gerhard’s 2^nd bite at the Attorney Misfit Apple Tree

• Failed advise each client that involving real estate transaction that no information received from one of
• them as part of the joint representation could be treated as confidential as between them
• Purported to assist real estate clients as a mediator to resolve a conflict that had arisen between them without obtaining
• the informed consent of one of the clients

As a direct consequence of his misconduct, the cheerleaders for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Law Society punished Gerhard by gifting him with a complimentary 4-month suspension of his law license and ordered to pay $10,000 to the Law Society for its costs.

As we speak (ca. October 2017), Gerhard practices at 3076 Lake View Cove Road in West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.