IN THE MATTER OF SHERIDAN, 169 N.J. 221 (2001)

777 A.2d 298

IN THE MATTER OF ROBERT J. SHERIDAN, AN ATTORNEY AT LAW.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.
July 9, 2001

ORDER
The Disciplinary Review Board having filed with the Court its decision in DRB 00-039 concluding that by way of reciprocal discipline, ROBERT J. SHERIDAN of COLLEGE PARK,

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MARYLAND, who was admitted to the bar of this State in 1986, and who has been ineligible to practice law in New Jersey since September 20, 1993, for failure to pay the annual assessments to the New Jersey Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection as required by R. 1:28-2, and who remains ineligible to practice at this time, should be suspended from the practice of law for an indefinite period of time on the basis of respondent’s indefinite suspension from practice in the State of Maryland effective January 10, 2000, for violating RPC 1.15(a) (failure to keep client’s property separate from own), RPC 1.15(b) (failure to promptly deliver funds or other property to a client or third person), RPC 1.15(c) (failure to maintain property in which the lawyer and a client both have an interest separate until there is an accounting and the property interests are served(, RPC 8.4(c) (conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation), and Business Occupations and Professions Article Sec. 10-306 of the Annotated Maryland Code (use of trust money for purpose other than the purpose for which the trust money was entrusted to the lawyer);

And the Disciplinary Review Board having determined that respondent should not be reinstated to practice in New Jersey until reinstated to practice in Maryland;

And good cause appearing;

It is ORDERED that ROBERT J. SHERIDAN is suspended from the practice of law until the further Order of the Court, effective January 10, 2000; and it is further

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ORDERED that no petition for reinstatement to practice be submitted to the Disciplinary Board by respondent unless and until respondent is reinstated to practice in Maryland; and it is further

ORDERED that the entire record of this matter be made a permanent part of respondent’s file as an attorney at law of this State; and it is further

ORDERED that respondent reimburse the Disciplinary Oversight Committee for appropriate administrative costs incurred in the prosecution of this matter.