A lawyer in the Quad Counties has been found guilty of one charge and cleared of two others.
The Boudrot-Rodgers law firm shut down in 2018; Jason Boudrot, one of the two name partners, was charged with misappropriating money from clients’ trust funds.
Members of the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society said Adam Rodgers, the other partner, should have caught what Boudrot was doing sooner and stopped it.
A hearing on two professional misconduct charges and one charge of professional misconduct and/or professional incompetence took place in October.
In a decision released Tuesday, members of a three-person panel found Rodgers guilty of one professional misconduct charge; they found the other two charges were not supported.
They said “it is clear that Mr. Rodgers did not actively and knowingly directly assist Mr. Boudrot in the massive misappropriation of trust funds” but “it is more probable than not that Adam Rodgers allowed Jason Boudrot to misappropriate clients’ trust funds through his willful blindness and recklessness, and thereby failed in his professional obligations.”
You can read the full decision here.
Panel members, who said there’s no evidence to suggest professional incompetence, will meet to determine a penalty within 60 days.
