A New Jersey general-practice lawyer has been publicly censured by a New York appeals court in a reciprocal-discipline ruling that laid out the attorney’s ethics transgressions, including him taking escrow funds that had been set aside for a client’s medical liens and, at one point, having a $70,000 shortfall in his escrow account.

“In sum,” the lawyer, Jeffrey D. Marks, “used his clients’ escrow funds as if they were a line of credit and thus commingled personal funds with escrow account funds,” wrote the Appellate Division, First Department court in New York state, which handed down the censure of Marks on Tuesday.

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