Kentucky Bar Ass'n v. Roberts

In this disciplinary proceeding the Kentucky Bar Association charged Harry W. Roberts, Jr., a Clinton, Kentucky, attorney and a member of the Kentucky Bar Association, with engaging in unprofessional and unethical conduct calculated to bring the bench and bar of Kentucky into disrepute. Roberts was charged with undertaking to represent a client in a lawsuit against another client while representing the latter client in a separate but related action.

*108The sole issue raised by Roberts’ answer and response was whether his actions constituted unprofessional conduct calculated to bring the bench and…