Discipline Notice - Philip S. Wakefield

License Number: 22599
Member Name: Philip S. Wakefield
Discipline Detail
Action: Suspension
Effective Date: 3/3/2025
RPC: 1.15A - Safeguarding Property
1.15B - Required Trust Account Records
1.3 - Diligence
Discipline Notice: Order Approving Stipulation
Supreme Court Order
Stipulation
Description: Philip Saint John Wakefield (WSBA No. 22599, admitted 1993) of Everett, was suspended for eight months, effective 3/3/2025, by order of the Washington Supreme Court. Kathy Jo Blake acted as disciplinary counsel. Kevin M Bank represented the respondent. Seth Aaron Fine was the hearing officer. Kenneth B. Gorton was the settlement hearing officer.

The lawyer’s conduct violated the following Rules of Professional Conduct: 1.3 Diligence, 1.15A Safeguarding Property, and 1.15B Required Trust Account Records.

Wakefield stipulated to suspension for: 1) failing to maintain client and/or third person funds in a trust account; 2) failing to promptly deliver to clients and/or third persons funds they were entitled
to receive; 3) disbursing more funds than clients had on deposit and/or by using one client’s
funds on behalf of another; 4) failing to maintain client ledgers and a complete, accurate, and/or current check register, and 5) failing to reconcile a trust account check register to the bank statements and failing to reconcile a trust account check register to the sum of the client ledgers.

Decision documents: Disciplinary Board Order Approving Stipulation; Stipulation to Suspension; and Washington Supreme Court Order.


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