MATTER OF BARRETT

No. D-126, September Term 2017 No. 081035.

213 A.3d 894 (2019)

238 N.J. 517

In the MATTER OF, Joseph Peter BARRETT, an Attorney at Law.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided July 15, 2019.

Corrected September 12, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Centinaro , Director, argued the cause on behalf of the Office of Attorney Ethics.

John McGill, III , argued the cause for respondent (McGill Law Practice, attorneys).


In this ethics proceeding, we are called upon to consider whether an attorney who received a 150-day suspension for knowing misappropriation of law firm funds in Utah — a jurisdiction that applies a preponderance of the evidence standard and recognizes no business dispute defense — may, based only on the Utah record, be disbarred...

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