IN THE MATTER OF THE DISCIPLINE OF AN ATTORNEY

SJC-09667.

449 Mass. 1001 (2007)

864 N.E.2d 1180

IN THE MATTER OF THE DISCIPLINE OF AN ATTORNEY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

April 26, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorothy Anderson, Assistant Bar Counsel.

Patrick J. Sharkey (Michael J. Stone with him) for the respondent.


Bar counsel and the respondent cross-appeal from a judgment of a single justice of this court admonishing the respondent. We affirm.

Background. Bar counsel filed with the Board of Bar Overseers (board) a petition for discipline alleging that the respondent had engaged in a conflict of interest by recording a mortgage discharge at the request of the mortgagor without first contacting the mortgagee, the mortgagor's father, for whom the respondent had drafted...

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