Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Wittmaack

OPINION OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Justice.

This is a disciplinary case in which various charges of misconduct have been brought against a Pennsylvania attorney. Charge I concerns a real estate transaction in which Attorney Wittmaack failed to inform his clients, whom he represented in the matter of securing a construction mortgage, that he held a financial interest in and was counsel for a construction company which would receive the proceeds of the mortgage. Charge I also concerns Mr. Wittmaack’s forgery of a document purporting to be signed by his clients in which the clients are said to…