Maryland Attorney Who Neglected Client’s Divorce Gets Suspended

Maryland’s highest court suspended for 60 days an attorney whose representation of her client in a divorce the court described as “incompetent and detrimental to the interests of her client.”

The June 8 opinion by the Maryland Court of Appeals said that Natalie Thryphenia Collins’s misconduct “impairs the public’s confidence in the legal profession.”

The Baltimore lawyer began working on the case in January 2017, soon after which discovery began, the court said.

Even though the client submitted her responses to Collins, the lawyer never finalized or served them, despite opposing counsel filing two motions for sanctions for not producing ...