Buckhead Lawyer Disbarred by State Supreme Court

A Buckhead attorney who specialized in helping people save their homes from foreclosure could not save himself from the Georgia Supreme Court and allegations of improper financial conduct.

Robert T. Thompson, Jr. was formally disbarred on Monday based on a bar complaint which alleged that Thompson took $15,000 in payments for services he never performed, writes the Daily Report. The complainant said that she paid the money into Thompson’s trust account, but wanted it back after she negotiated a loan modification on her own. Thompson allegedly refused to return the money, and later admitted that the money had not been put into a trust account.

Although the supreme court only examined one complaint against Thompson, several other clients have similar stories to tell. According to the Daily Report, a warrant charging Thompson with theft by conversion was taken out in 2014 after a different client said he had taken $37,400 under false pretenses. He also lost a default judgment when sued by a couple who claimed his inaction on foreclosure proceedings cost them their home.

Thompson, who was the long-time chairman of the State Bar of Georgia’s lawyers’ assistance committee, helped his fellow lawyers work with disabilities and beat addictions, but a lawyer who represents Thompson on some occasions told the Daily Report that he closed his private practice last year because of his own disabilities.