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In the Matter of Neitlich

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided August 14, 1992PublishedCited by 33 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtLiacos, C.J.

We consider the appropriate level of discipline to be imposed on an attorney (respondent) who, in the course of representing a former husband in a post-divorce proceeding, perpetrated a fraud on the court and opposing counsel by actively misrepresenting the terms of his client’s pending real estate transaction. Based on an information filed in this court by the Board of Bar Overseers (board), a single justice entered an order suspending the respondent from the practice of law for one year. The respondent appealed. The single justice stayed his order pending the outcome of the appeal. We…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
  2. Nix v. WhitesideSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  3. In the Matter of AlterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
  4. In the Matter of PikeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1990
  5. In the Matter of DriscollMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1991

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3Cited by33 opinions

  1. In re TobinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
  2. Paternity of CherylMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
  3. In re CobbMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2005
  4. In re ConcemiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1996
  5. Commonwealth v. BakerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003

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