In re Andres

¶ 1. Respondent, Robert Andres, Esq., appeals a Professional Responsibility Board decision that he violated Rule 1.3 of the Vermont Rules of Professional Conduct by failing to attend a pretrial hearing and to respond to a motion for summary judgment. We adopt the Professional Responsibility Board’s ruling and suspend respondent for a period of two months.

¶ 2. Respondent was assigned to represent Andres Torres in a post-conviction relief (PCR) petition arising out of Torres’s 1997 guilty plea to a second offense of domestic assault. Torres was represented by counsel other than respondent when…