In Re Barry

These disciplinary proceedings commenced with the filing of a complaint with the District IV Ethics Committee (local committee) by the law firm with which respondent, Thomas Barry, was associated. The firm charged Barry with a series of what can be described only as extraordinary and bizarre ethical transgressions that occurred between the latter part of 1974 and June 1979. One of the unusual aspects of the matter is that respondent not only admitted, in his answering pleading, the nineteen separate instances of misconduct set forth in the complaint, but in the interests of full disclosure…