In re Kersey

George E. Kersey is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and of the Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 1992, the Family Court of the State of Vermont found that Kersey had “willfully and contumaciously failed to comply with [the court’s] Final Order and decree” in a divorce proceeding instituted by Kersey’s former wife. The court held Kersey in civil contempt and imposed monetary and other sanctions. Kersey was also found to be in contempt on several later occasions during the matrimonial litigation in Vermont.

On October 20, 1999, the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County,…