IN THE MATTER OF THE DISCIPLINE OF TWO ATTORNEYS


421 Mass. 619 (1996)

IN THE MATTER OF THE DISCIPLINE OF TWO ATTORNEYS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 8, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David G. Cohen (Charles S. Cohen with him) for the respondents.

Bruce T. Eisenhut, Assistant Bar Counsel.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, & FRIED, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

Two attorneys, partners in a law firm, have declined to accept the recommendation of the Board of Bar Overseers (board) that they be administered private reprimands.1 Their disciplinary problems arose because in 1991 they (a) simultaneously represented both the buyer of real estate and a judgment creditor of the seller and (b) used information obtained in representing the buyer to attach proceeds of the sale for the benefit...

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