Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings Against Converse

Attorney disciplinary proceeding; attorney publicly reprimanded and conditions imposed on continued practice.

We review the report of the referee recommending that Attorney Mark E. Converse be publicly reprimanded and be required to perform pro bono legal services as discipline for professional misconduct. That misconduct consisted of his failure to diligently pursue a client's criminal appeal and his failure to turn over the client's file to successor counsel, despite repeated requests to do so.

We determine that the recommended sanction for Attorney Converse's professional misconduct is…