Attorney Suspended Indefinitely After Nearly Causing Deportation

An immigration lawyer who emigrated to the US from Cameroon was indefinitely suspended after Maryland’s top court held that he almost caused the deportation of his former client by failing to take action in the case.

Terence Taniform allegedly violated rules on competence, diligence, communication, and more in the course of two separate cases, including one involving Fon Halley Fon, a client and citizen of Cameroon who was misled about the status of his appeal case. Fon had to hire a new attorney to file an emergency motion to stay his deportation, according to court documents.

Taniform was further accused ...