The State Bar of California issued a consumer alert Monday for Dax Yeophantong Craven, a San Francisco-based entertainment lawyer that it has charged with pocketing $100,000 he was supposed to use for a real estate transaction.
In April 2015, Craven received $200,000 from client Michael Hensley, transferred half to a title company on Hensley’s behalf, and deposited the rest—which was intended to be part of the real estate payment—into his own bank account, according to a notice of disciplinary charges filed by the State Bar’s office of chief trial counsel on July 11 in San Francisco.
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