A Fox Point lawyer who begged his way out of a jail sentence in 2018 for stealing from an estate has been deemed safe to practice law again in Wisconsin by the state Supreme Court.
Daniel Morse, 67, remains disbarred in Florida and suspended from practice in Pennsylvania, two other states where he had once been licensed.
He was charged in 2017 with five felonies and three misdemeanors for his handling of money from a Dodge County estate starting in 2014. Ultimately, he pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor embezzlements after prosecutors agreed to drop all the felonies.
Morse repaid the estate $26,037.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Joseph Wall withheld a jail sentence and imposed two years of probation in April 2018. At the time, Morse had not yet been sanctioned by professional regulators, but one of his conditions of probation was that he not work in any kind of fiduciary capacity or as a lawyer.