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IN THE MATTER OF ELLIS

425 Mass. 332 (1997)

IN THE MATTER OF JAMES N. ELLIS, JR. IN THE MATTER OF NICHOLAS J. ELLIS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 27, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy E. Kaufman, Assistant Bar Counsel.

Max D. Stern for James N. Ellis, Jr.

Michael Avery for Nicholas J. Ellis.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Frederic N. Halstrom & John J. St. Andre, Jr., for the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys.

Cheryl Flax-Davidson for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

Janice Bassil & Joseph J. Balliro for the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Joel M. Reck & Richard L. Neumeier for the Boston Bar Association.

Michael E. Mone, William F. Looney, Jr., & Benjamin Fierro, III, for the Massachusetts Bar Association.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., LYNCH, O'CONNOR, GREANEY, FRIED, & MARSHALL, JJ.

WILKINS, C.J.

James N. Ellis, Jr., and Nicholas J. Ellis, members of the bar of the Commonwealth and the only partners in the law firm of Ellis & Ellis, appeal from orders of a single justice of this court temporarily suspending them from the practice of law, pursuant to S.J.C. Rule 4:01, § 12A, as appearing in 394 Mass. 1110 (1985) (hereinafter § 12A).

On March 3, 1997, a Worcester County grand jury...

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