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Law Beat: Theft by attorneys still a problem, even amid pandemic FacebookTwitterEmail Timothy O Sullivan with Lawyers Fund for Client Protection, testifies during a public hearing of the Commission on Statewide Attorney Discipline, held at the New York State Court of Appeals on Tuesday, July 28, 2015, in Albany, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)PAUL BUCKOWSKI Not even a pandemic could slow down one of the longest-standing practices of shady lawyers in New York state: theft. The Lawyers Fund for Client Protection, a state agency that compensates victims of crooked and extremely negligent attorneys, paid $3.4 million alone last year to victims whose attorneys who stole from real estate escrow accounts. That’s more than 40 percent of all the money the agency reimbursed, according to its most recent annual report. ....