In re Sharif

This bar discipline matter comes before the court on appeal from an order of a single justice suspending the respondent attorney, Tammy Sharif, from the practice of law for three years, the third year to be stayed. Bar counsel appeals, urging that the presumptive sanctions of disbarment or indefinite *559suspension which apply to disciplinary cases involving conversion of client funds under Matter of Schoepfer, 426 Mass. 183 (1997) (Schoepfer), and Matter of the Discipline of an Attorney, 392 Mass. 827 (1984) (known as the Three Attorneys case), should also apply when attorneys convert fees…