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NORTH CAROLINA BEFORE
THE GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE
WAKE COUNTY OF
THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE BAR
23G0469
IN THE MATTER OF )
) REPRIMAND
TREVOR DAVID BRANDT, )
ATTORNEY AT LAW )
On October 31, 2024, the Grievance Committee of the North Carolina State Bar met and
considered the grievance filed against you by the North Carolina State Bar. The grievance was
assigned to a Subcommittee, which thoroughly reviewed the results of the State Bar staff’s
investigation of this matter.
Pursuant to Section .0113(a) of the Discipline and Disability Rules of the North Carolina
State Bar, the Grievance Subcommittee conducted a preliminary hearing. After considering the
information available to it, including your response to the letter of notice, the Grievance
Subcommittee found probable cause. Probable cause is defined in the rules as “reasonable cause
to believe that a member of the North Carolina State Bar is guilty of misconduct justifying
disciplinary action.”
The rules provide that after a finding of probable cause, the Grievance Committee may
determine that the filing of a complaint and a hearing before the Disciplinary Hearing Commission
are not required, and the Grievance Committee may issue various levels of discipline depending
upon the misconduct, the actual or potential injury caused, and any aggravating or mitigating
factors. The Grievance Committee may issue an admonition, a reprimand, or a censure to the
respondent attorney.
A reprimand is a written form of discipline more serious than an admonition issued in cases
in which an attorney has violated one or more provisions of the Rules of Professional Conduct and
has caused harm or potential harm to a client, the administration of justice, the profession, or a
member of the public, but the misconduct does not require a censure.
The Grievance Committee was of the opinion that a censure is not required in this case and
issues this reprimand to you. As chairman of the Grievance Committee of the North Carolina State
Bar, it is now my duty to issue this reprimand.
You received funds into your trust account for client Will, returning funds due to Will for
a home purchase that did not go through. You were notified that there was a dispute regarding the
source of funds provided by Will for the home purchase. Despite notice that there was a dispute
regarding Will’s entitlement to these funds, you disbursed the funds to Will and to yourself for
attorney’s fees, in violation of Rule 1.15-2(a), (l), and (n). Your disbursement of funds to yourself
occurred after entry of a temporary restraining order prohibiting Will and anyone acting in concert
with her from dissipating, transferring, conveying, converting, or otherwise using or spending the
funds at issue, and thus your disbursement of attorney’s fees to yourself from these funds violated
the court’s order and was in violation of Rule 8.4(d). In the course of communications with
opposing counsel concerning the funds, you made two misrepresentations in violation of Rule
8.4(c).
You are hereby reprimanded by the North Carolina State Bar for your professional
misconduct. The Grievance Committee trusts that you will heed this reprimand, that it will be
remembered by you, that it will be beneficial to you, and that you will never again allow yourself
to depart from adherence to the high ethical standards of the legal profession.
In accordance with the policy adopted July 23, 2010 by the Council of the North Carolina
State Bar regarding the taxing of administrative fees and investigative costs to any attorney issued
a reprimand by the Grievance Committee, an administrative fee in the amount of $350.00 is hereby
taxed to you.
Done and ordered, this the 5th day of December, 2024.
_________________________
Kevin G. Williams, Chair
Grievance Committee

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