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Conduct 3.4(c); -06 (Minn. 2012) (stating that attorney’s failure to comply with court order violated Rule 3.4(c)).

“[M]aking misrepresentations demonstrates a lack of honesty and integrity, and warrants severe discipline.” (“A lawyer’s duty of candor to the court goes to the core of preserving the soundness of the justice system.”).

Misappropriation “occurs whenever funds belonging to a client are not deposited in a trust account and are used for any purpose other than that specified by the client.” (citation omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted).

We have previously stated that “making misrepresentations demonstrates a lack of honesty and integrity, and warrants severe discipline.”

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We held in In re Lundeen, which also involved an attorney who failed to cooperate with the Director’s investigation, that we may conclude that the attorney has misappropriated client funds when the attorney “perform[s] no work on [a client’s file] and never return[s] the funds to the clients.” (applying Lundeen).

Second, in In re Lundeen, we indicated that misappropriation may occur when a lawyer “perform[s] no work on [client] matters and never returnfs] the funds to the clients.”

The four factors that guide our imposition of discipline are “the nature of the misconduct, the cumulative weight of the disciplinary violations, the harm to the public, and the harm to the legal profession.” (citation omitted).