ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE v. McDOWELL & BURSON

Misc. Docket AG No. 50, September Term, 2012.

93 A.3d 711 (2014)

439 Md. 26

ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE COMMISSION OF MARYLAND v. Matthew John McDOWELL & John Stephen BURSON.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 19, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James N. Gaither , Assistant Bar Counsel ( Glenn M. Grossman , Bar Counsel, Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland), for Petitioner.

Stanley J. Reed, Esq. (Learch, Early & Brewer, Bethesda, MD) and Deborah Murrell Whelihan, Esq. (Jordan Coyne & Savits, LLP, Washington, DC), for Respondents.

Argued before BARBERA, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ADKINS, McDONALD and WATTS, JJ.


WATTS, J.

This attorney discipline proceeding involves a lawyer who "robo-signed" a large number of foreclosure-related documents,1 and the managing partner of the law firm at which the robo-signing occurred.

While John Stephen Burson ("Burson"), Respondent, a member of the Bar of Maryland, was the managing partner of the law firm that is now Shapiro Brown & Alt, LLP ("the Shapiro Firm"),2 Matthew...

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