In Re Kantor

The respondent, Philip L. Kantor, is an attorney with a past disciplinary record who abandoned his clients without so much as a warning, leaving their matters in jeopardy; who declined to answer the allegations in the resulting ethics complaint, which charged him with, among other things, gross neglect; who offered no explanation for his conduct or evidence in mitigation of discipline to the Disciplinary Review Board (DRB); and who defied this Court’s order to appear and give cause why he should not be disbarred for his professional derelictions. We cannot conclude, as does the DRB, that…