In re Shuman

The respondent, Mark S. Shuman, has stipulated that he (1) submitted to the court a pretrial memorandum listing Norman Bates as an expert witness and describing Bates’s “expected testimony” despite never having communicated with Bates about the case; at the judge’s order, expanded on Bates’s “expected testimony” in a two-page supplemental answer to the defendant’s interrogatory; did not disclose that Bates would not be involved in the case until the day the case was scheduled for mediation; and (2) misplaced another client’s file. The parties stipulated to facts in mitigation, including a…