Alina Victorovna Nikolaeva

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

Lawyer Alina V. Nikolaeva entered a consent agreement admitting professional misconduct for using her firm's trust account to receive and disburse $466,537.00 USD between 2014 and 2019 without providing substantial legal services or making reasonable inquiries about the source of funds, and for failing to adequately identify and verify a client in October 2014. She agreed to a two-week suspension. No dishonesty was found, and there was no indication of fraud or harm to clients.

Duties found breached:

• No conflict between current clients
• No improper use of client money

Mitigating factors:

• No prior professional conduct record
• Re-evaluated and changed office procedures for client identification and verification
• Remorseful; acknowledged and apologized for misconduct; assured no repeat
• Reviewed Rules on client ID, verification and trust accounting; completed AML webinar and studied Trust Accounting Handbook
• No fraud or illegal conduct involved and no clients harmed