In re Grossman

This bar discipline matter is here on appeal from an order of a single justice indefinitely suspending the respondent attorney, Jodie Grossman, from the practice of law. At issue is whether bar counsel’s delay in the prosecution of the matter — some eight years — should be considered as a mitigating factor in the sanction imposed for the respondent’s misconduct, misappropriation of client funds with actual deprivation or intent to deprive, and submission of fabricated evidence to bar counsel.

The respondent asks that we not impose the presumptive sanction for her misconduct, an indefinite…