In re a Member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the State Reardon

The matter before the Court is a lawyer disciplinary proceeding. This Court has weighed the findings of the Board on Professional Responsibility (Board), the aggravating and mitigating factors, the ABA Standards for Imposing Lawyer Sanctions, and other disciplinary cases. A central determination in this case is whether the specific instances of misconduct found in the current case, when juxtaposed with the lawyer’s prior record of ethical violations, constitutes a “pattern” of neglect warranting the imposition of the sanction of suspension. We hold that the record in this case does not…