IN THE MATTER OF SHAW


427 Mass. 764 (1998)

IN THE MATTER OF PHILIP S. SHAW.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 7, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cathleen C. Cavell, Assistant Bar Counsel.

Louis P. Font for the respondent.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., LYNCH, GREANEY, & FRIED, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

This case concerns the appropriate sanction to be imposed on an attorney who made false statements under oath, filed a false affidavit in court proceedings, and issued false and misleading opinion letters signed under oath to which he forged the notarization of another attorney. A single justice of this court ordered that the respondent be suspended from the practice of law for a period of one year. Both the respondent and bar counsel appealed from the...

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