Solicitor Sean Mulvihill of Cork, Ireland; ethical troll

The Law Society of Ireland presented Sean A. Mulvihill with a law license in 1984 after he graduated from Queen’s University School of Law.

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

• Failed to maintain proper books of account so that there was uncertainty as to the true position in respect of client funds
• Failed to enter full details, and in some cases failed to enter any details at all, on cheque stubs and lodgment stubs
• Failed to enter virtually any information in the books of account as to the sources of money received and details of cheque payees 
• Allowed a deficit to arise in client monies which stood at £31,805 and which subsequently rose to £56,662
• Failed to disclose the misappropriation of client monies by the first-named respondent solicitor of £7,500
• Advanced approximately £10,000 of clients’ monies to a client when these monies did not stand to the credit of that client and therefore advanced to him other client monies
• Failed to file an accountant’s report covering the firm’s financial year within six months of the accounting date

As a direct consequence of his misconduct, the enablers for Solicitor Misfits sitting on the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal punished Sean by gifting him with a complimentary censure and imposed a fine of €5,000.

As we speak (ca. June 2020), Sean practices with Moynihan Mulvihill & Co at 6 Cornmarket Street, in Cork, Ireland.