B.C. lawyer disbarred after improper real estate-related trust transaction

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Tejinder Singh Dhillon was disbarred from the Law Society of BC on Feb. 20 following a panel ruling.

A Law Society of BC hearing panel has disbarred non-practicing lawyer Tejinder Singh Dhillon, who misappropriated $1.5 million from his client trust accounts while moonlighting in real estate development.

On another occasion, Dhillon “enabled an unauthorized payment of client funds to a relative involved in work on a townhouse project undertaken by the aforementioned numbered company.” He was also found to have acted in a conflict of interest when he allowed a corporation beneficially owned by his wife to lend his clients $50,000, the society noted in a Feb. 23 statement.

In making the decision to disbar Dhillon, the hearing panel took into consideration the seriousness of the misconduct, his unwillingness to acknowledge responsibility for misuse of his trust account and his previous conduct record, which included a conduct review in 2017 for acting in an unprofessional and aggressive manner to staff at a mortgage company.At the time of Dhillon’s hearing in September 2022, he was already a non-practicing lawyer, having resigned from the society in June 2019.

 

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