People v. Lowery

In this lawyer discipline proceeding three complaining witnesses (the victims), employees of the law firm of the respondent, Philip E. Lowery, asserted that on several occasions the respondent inflicted vulgar, degrading non-consensual sexually abusive conduct on them. The hearing board (the board) entered findings and conclusions to the effect that the respondent engaged in professional misconduct and recommended imposition of a thirty-day suspension as a sanction. A hearing panel of the Supreme Court Grievance Committee approved the board’s findings of fact and conclusions but recommended…