A recent opinion of the Colorado Presiding Disciplinary Judge

Lindsay Arroyo (“Respondent”), a New York-licensed lawyer practicing in Colorado federal courts, abandoned three vulnerable immigration clients. She ignored their communications and conferred no benefit on them, even while she converted their funds for her own personal use. For almost four years she comingled personal and client funds in her trust account. When disciplinary authorities investigated, she falsified bank records to conceal her misuse of her trust account. Respondent’s abandonment of her clients, coupled with her knowing conversion of their funds and her dishonesty when dealing with regulatory authorities, demonstrates that she is unregulatable and poses a significant danger to Colorado citizens. She must be disbarred.

(Mike Frisch)