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Greenstein, David

JurisdictionAustralia — New South Wales
BodyOffice of the Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (OLSC)
Professionsolicitor — Greenstein & Associates
Case number[2015] NSWCATOD 122
Date29-Oct-2015
HearingNSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division
OutcomeCosts Removal of practitioner's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers $0.00 Proceedings Instituted

Allegation / charges

<p>1. Contravened a condition on his practising certificate for the years ending 30 June 2011 and 30 June 2012</p><p>2. Failed to comply with his undertaking to the Law Society</p><p>3. Failed to respond to correspondence in respect of the practising certificate years ending 30 June 2011 and 30 June 2012</p><p>4. Failed to pay counsel's fees</p><p>5. Failed to respond to counsel's correspondence</p><p>6. Breached s255 of the LPA 2004 - Holding, disbursing and accounting for trust money</p><p>7. Breached s256 of the LPA 2004 - Controlled money</p><p>8. Breached s263 of the LPA 2004 - Reporting certain irregularities and suspected irregularities</p><p>9. Breached s264 of the LPA 2004 - Keeping trust records</p><p>10. Without resonable excuse caused a deficiency in trust monies</p><p>11. Misappropriated trust monies</p> — Professional Misconduct

Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The practitioner was found guilty of professional misconduct including contravening practising certificate conditions, failing to comply with an undertaking, failing to respond to correspondence, failing to pay counsel's fees, multiple breaches of the Legal Profession Act 2004 relating to trust and controlled money and record keeping, causing a deficiency in trust monies, and misappropriating trust monies. The text does not state the sanction imposed or make an express finding of dishonesty.

Duties found breached:

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]

Duties engaged

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