JACKSON, Miss. (WDAM) - The Mississippi State Bar has asked that Hattiesburg-based attorney Cory N. Ferraez be suspended from practicing law.

The Bar filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the Office of the Clerk for the Mississippi Supreme Court/Court of Appeals, spelling out the details of “misappropriation and failure to safekeep funds entrusted to him in at least two matters known to the Bar“ as well as other ”ethical violations."

The Bar also filed a motion asking for an “interim suspension” of Ferraez, “for a period of greater than six months.”

The formal complaint was made “based on two separate informal complaints where Mr. Ferraez...

Received settlement funds on behalf of a client

failed to safekeep those funds entrusted to him

failed to deliver the funds to the client

and,

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