Solicitor Michael O’Connor of Limerick, Ireland; ethical gnome

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found Mikey guilty of engaging in the following misconduct.

• Drew or allowed to be drawn solicitor/client fees from the client account by means of client account cheques payable to the relevant clients without recording same in the office account books and without lodging same in the office account in breach of the Solicitors’ Accounts Regulations
• Allowed professional fees to be posted to the debit of the office ledger when the costs were transferred from the client account to the office account instead of when bills were issued
• Allowed party-and-party professional fees to be transferred from client account to office account without having been billed to the clients involved as required by the relevant regulation

As a direct consequence of his misconduct, the enablers for Solicitor Misfits sitting on the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal punished Mikey by gifting him with a complimentary admonishment and fined in the amount of €3,000.

As we speak (ca. July 2020), Mikey practices with DJ O’Malley & Co. at 9/10 Glentworth Street in Limerick, Ireland.