In re Edmonds

On August 14, 2001, the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County, Massachusetts, suspended respondent David E. Ed-monds for the period of one year and a day after he abandoned his position as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Respondent also failed to cooperate with the Massachusetts bar counsel and failed to abide by the terms of a previously imposed administrative suspension.1 The Board on Professional Responsibility (“Board”) now recommends that we impose identical reciprocal discipline of a suspension for one year and one day with a fitness requirement.

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