Attorney Elaine Dowling of Las Vegas; cheater, serial offender

The state of Nevada presented Elaine A. Dowling with a law license in 2003 after she graduated from the University of Nevada School of Law.

The Nevada Disciplinary Board found Elaine guilty of engaging in the following misconduct.

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

• Knowingly caused injury to her client
• Entered into an agreement, charged, or collected an unreasonable fee (cheater)
• Failed to take steps to protect a client’s interest upon being terminated
• Upon receipt of a $32,500 retainer, Elaine deposited it into her office account and spent over $9,000 of the fee within 48 hours before she performed any work on the client’s behalf
• Retained unearned fees for over a year despite numerous client requests to refund said funds

As a direct consequence of her misconduct, the cheerleaders for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Nevada Supreme Court punished Elaine by gifting her with a complimentary reprimand and assessed investigative costs of $1,500.00.

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

• Engaged in a conflict of interest
• Was untruthful in statements to others
• Faield to she was not a third-party neutral when acting as an escrow agent for a transaction between her cleint and an unrepresented non-client
• Failed to timely inform the non-client to seek independent counsel
• Passed along incorrect information in response to the non-client’s request for assurance that Elaine’s cleint would fulfill the underlying contract
• Knowingly violated duties owed to the public and the profession

As a direct consequence of her misconduct, the cheerleaders for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Nevada Supreme Court punished Elaine by gifting her with a complimentary stayed 6-month suspension of her law license and assessed investigative costs of $2,500.00.

In truth, the comedians sitting on the Nevada Supreme Court didn’t mete out any meaningful punishment to Chrissy

Elaine’s 3^rd bite at the Attorney Misfit Apple Tree

• Failed to act with due diligence (slacker)
• Failed to safeguard client funds
• Assisted a disbarred attorney and suspended from practicing before the SEC in representing clients and appearing before the SEC
• Lack of diligence led to monetary sanction being assessed against her client
• Failed to properly manage her trust accounts
• Commingled client funds with personal funds
• Failed to fully cooperate with ethics investigators (Screw you, said Elaine!)
• Failed to provide client and trust account ledgers to ethics investigators
• Misconduct clearly harmed her client (victim)

As a direct consequence of her misconduct, the cheerleaders for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Nevada Supreme Court punished Elaine by gifting her with a complimentary 1-year suspension of her law license and assessed investigative costs of $2,500.00.

As we speak (ca. July 2023), Elaine practices her so-called brand of law in Las Vegas, Nevada.