Duggan v. Gonsalves

This case involves an attorney who purchased his clients’ home at a foreclosure sale, notwithstanding that the attorney had been engaged to represent the clients in connection with protecting their house from foreclosure and restructuring their debt, including outstanding tax liens. The attorney also drafted a purchase and sale agreement to buy the clients’ house, *251canceled the closing under that agreement, and then proceeded to the foreclosure auction. The attorney was the clients’ legal counsel throughout all of the transactions at issue in the case.2

After the foreclosure purchase of his…