A veteran Manhattan lawyer has been suspended from practicing law immediately pending further court order, and he may face more punishment, after a state appeals court found Thursday that the attorney repeatedly misappropriated and converted client and third-party funds held in escrow, often using the money for himself.

Dennis A. Schuman, whose office phone line describes him as a personal injury and general practice attorney, and who has been practicing law for more than 40 years in New York, has been suspended based on evidence that between 2012 and 2018 he misappropriated case settlement funds, and ignored or found ways around third-party liens on parts of the funds, in three different instances, according to an Appellate Division, First Department decision suspending him.

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