LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A former Kansas attorney accused of covering up his role in a friend’s death has been ordered to pay her family nearly $300,000.

On Wednesday, a Clay County judge approved the resolution of the suit against former Overland Park, Kansas, lawyer Robert Mintz. The Kansas City Star reports that Mintz was accused of leaving Jennifer Arnett alone and heavily intoxicated in her Kansas City apartment in January 2012. The suit says that after she fell and broke her neck, Mintz found her body but didn’t immediately alert authorities. He also was accused of trying to cover up that they had been drinking together.

Although Mintz did not face criminal charges, state supreme courts in Missouri and Kansas suspended Mintz’s law license. Mintz has called his actions “a personal failure.”