IN THE MATTER OF THE DISCIPLINE OF AN ATTORNEY


392 Mass. 827 (1984)

468 N.E.2d 256

IN THE MATTER OF THE DISCIPLINE OF AN ATTORNEY (and two companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 20, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terence M. Troyer, Assistant Bar Counsel (Daniel Klubock, Bar Counsel, with him).

Paul R. Sugarman (David P. Angueira with him) for the respondent in the first case.

William P. Homans, Jr., for the respondent in the second case.

John O. Mirick for the respondent in the third case.

Diane Lund, for Board of Bar Overseers, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


HENNESSEY, C.J.

These three cases present the question of the proper discipline to be imposed on an attorney who places his clients' funds in a commingled account and thereafter uses the funds. Cases One and Two were reported to the full court by a single justice in each instance. Case Three is here on the appeal of the Board of Bar Overseers (Board) and Bar Counsel from the disposition entered by the single justice. The...

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