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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

Allegation / charges

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

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

SanctionOther
Dishonesty foundNo

The excerpt sets out a list of allegations against the practitioner, including practising certificate condition breaches, failure to honour an undertaking, failures to respond to correspondence, failure to pay counsel's fees, multiple breaches of the Legal Profession Act 2004 (ss255, 256, 263, 264) relating to trust money and records, causing a trust deficiency, and misappropriation of trust monies constituting professional misconduct. No tribunal findings, sanction, or costs orders are contained in the provided text.

Duties found breached:

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

Duties engaged

Other decisions involving this respondent

  • Decision 2013-08-07 · OLSC · Australia — New South Wales

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