In re Barker

This disciplinary proceeding arises out of the determination of the Disciplinary Review Board (DRB) to treat as a presentment, the recommendation of the District XIV Ethics Committee for Mercer County (the Ethics Committee) that respondent be privately reprimanded. The Disciplinary Review Board unanimously agreed with the Ethics Committee’s findings of unethical conduct but was unable to agree on the appropriate discipline. A majority of the DRB recommended that respondent be suspended from the practice of law for six months, one member of the DRB recommended that respondent be suspended from…