Board of Overseers of the Bar v. Dineen

VIOLETTE, Justice.

James Martin Dineen appeals from a decision and order of a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court finding that he had violated several provisions of the Maine Bar Rules and, as a sanction, ordering his suspension as an attorney from the practice of law in all courts of the state for a period of six months. Appellant contends on appeal that the single justice erred in each of his several findings of violation of the Maine Bar Rules. We affirm.

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The charges against Mr. Dineen first arose as the result of legal services he rendered to a husband and wife in 1982. The…