In re the Discipline of an Attorney

Bar counsel and the respondent cross-appeal from a judgment of a single justice of this court admonishing the respondent. We affirm.

Background. Bar counsel filed with the Board of Bar Overseers (board) a petition for discipline alleging that the respondent had engaged in a conflict of interest by recording a mortgage discharge at the request of the mortgagor without first contacting the mortgagee, the mortgagor’s father, for whom the respondent had drafted but not recorded the discharge several years earlier. A hearing committee found that the respondent had violated Mass. R. Prof. C. 1.9…