Attorney Milan Uzelac of British Columbia; ethical gnome

The Law Society of British Columbia presented Milan Matt Uzelac with a law license in 1975 after he graduated from the University of British Columbia School of Law.

The British Columbia Law Society Disciplinary Counsel found Milan guilty of and/or alleged to have engaged in the following misconduct.

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

• Failed to maintain the required books, records, and accounts
• Failed to maintain trust cash books, client trust ledgers, records showing transfers between
• clients, trust ledgers and all supporting documents
• Failed to maintain a general cash book, accounts receivable ledger or other suitable system
• Failed to maintain copies of all bank-validated deposit slips and all supporting documents and vouchers over six-month period
• Failed to keep a billing file
• Failed to record trust transactions within seven days
• Failed to record general transactions within 30 days
• Failed immediately produce pooled trust account cancelled cheques, bank reconciliations,
• completed ledger cards, general bank account records and trust liability reconciliations to the Law
• Society auditor
• Failed to eliminate immediately a trust fund shortage resulting from a theft of funds by an employee.
• Failed to implement and operate a proper accounting system
• Failed to notify the Law Society of an unsatisfied judgment against him

As a direct consequence of his misconduct, the cheerleaders for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Law Society punished Milan by gifting him with a complimentary reprimand and imposed disciplinary costs of $5,000.00

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

• Milan admitted that his conduct amounted to professional misconduct
• Breached undertaking [client representation] by releasing mortgage funds without registering the mortgage as a first charge as instructed
• Failed to report to the bank on the status of the registration of a mortgage
• Failed to report to the bank that he had released the mortgage funds without securing its position as instructed and failing to answer communications from the bank
• Milan admitted that his conduct amounted to professional misconduct
• Used his trust account to receive and disburse some or all of $1,167,000 that he credited to his client AN, without making reasonable inquiries about the circumstances, including the subject matter and objectives of your retainer and the source of the funds, and without providing substantial legal services in relation to the trust funds

As a direct consequence of his misconduct, the cheerleaders for Attorney Misfits sitting on the Law Society punished Milan by gifting him with a complimentary 6-week suspension of his law license and imposed disciplinary costs of $2,000.00

As we speak (ca. December 2020), Milan practices with Milan Uzelac Law Offices PLC at 938 Howe Street in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.