Decision record
Greenstein, David
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
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:
- No improper communication with the court
- Uphold public trust in the profession
- No improper use of client money
- Prompt accounting and return of money
- Hold a current practising certificate
- Report serious misconduct of others
- No baseless or threatened misconduct report
- Honour professional undertakings
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
- No improper communication with the court
- Uphold public trust in the profession
- No improper use of client money
- Prompt accounting and return of money
- Hold a current practising certificate
- Report serious misconduct of others
- No baseless or threatened misconduct report
- Honour professional undertakings
- Pay instructed practitioners and agents
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Documents
Source: https://portal.olsc.nsw.gov.au/dasearchbn/daresultdetail/?id=f25fa7df-b633-eb11-bf74-000d3ad1941e