Doyle

This is a proceeding to review a recommendation of the Disciplinary Board of the State Bar of California that petitioner be suspended from the practice of law for one year upon conditions of *976 probation, including actual suspension for the first month and the making of restitution to his client.

Petitioner was admitted to practice in California in 1962. He has no prior record of discipline. He was charged in two separate matters with the violation of his oath and duties as an attorney (Bus. & Prof. Code, §§ 6103, 6067, 6068) and the commission of acts involving moral turpitude and dishonesty (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 6106). After a hearing on both charges the local administrative committee found that petitioner acted wilfully and in a grossly negligent manner in the representation of Raymond Chellman and that he made misrepresentations to both Chellman and the State Bar. The committee also, found that petitioner wilfully failed to perform any of the services for which he was retained on behalf of Steve Bulboff and refused to return a $1,500 retainer fee, converting that sum to his own use.

Petitioner was retained by Chellman in October 1968 to act as attorney in the…