Opinion
Docket No. DRB 15-073
04-13-2015
RE: In the Matter of Benjamin Morton
ELLEN A. BRODSKY CHIEF COUNSEL ISABEL FRANK DEPUTY CHIEF COUNSEL MELISSA URBAN FIRST ASSISTANT COUNSEL TIMOTHY M. ELLIS LILLIAN LEWIN BARRY R. PETERSEN, JR. COLIN T. TAMS KATHRYN ANNE WINTERLE ASSISTANT COUNSEL
BONNIE C. FROST, ESQ., CHAIR
EDNA Y. BAUGH, ESQ., VICE-CHAIR
BRUCE W. CLARK, ESQ.
HON. MAURICE J. GALLIPOLI
THOMAS J. HOBERMAN
EILEEN RIVERA
ANNE C. SINGER, ESQ.
ROBERT C. ZMIRICH ELLEN A. BRODSKY
CHIEF COUNSEL ISABEL FRANK
DEPUTY CHIEF COUNSEL MELISSA URBAN
FIRST ASSISTANT COUNSEL TIMOTHY M. ELLIS
LILLIAN LEWIN
BARRY R. PETERSEN, JR.
COLIN T. TAMS
KATHRYN ANNE WINTERLE
ASSISTANT COUNSEL RICHARD J. HUGHES JUSTICE COMPLEX Mark Neary, Clerk
Supreme Court of New Jersey
P.O. Box 970
Trenton, New Jersey 08625 Dear Mr. Neary:
The Disciplinary Review Board recommends to the Supreme Court that respondent be reinstated to the practice of law. Respondent's three-month suspension expired on April 6, 2015. The Board's determination was based on a petition for reinstatement filed by respondent.
The following documents are enclosed:
1. Ethics history, dated April 13, 2015, along with the Client Protection Fund report, dated April 10, 2015 and updated April 13, 2015, with no changes.
2. Petition for reinstatement, dated March 5, 2015, with attachments, as supplemented via letter, dated March 30, 2015, with attachments.
3. Proofs of publication in the New Jersey Law Journal, dated March 30, 2015, The Record, dated March 23, 2015, and the Star Ledger, dated March 25, 2015.
4. Letter from the Office of Attorney Ethics, dated April 7, 2015, offering no objection to respondent's petition.
Very truly yours,
/s/
Ellen A. Brodsky
Chief Counsel /gv
encls.
c: Bonnie C. Frost, Chair, Disciplinary Review Board
(w/o encls.)
Charles Centinaro, Director, Office of Attorney
Ethics (w/o encls.)
Daniel Hendi, Director, Lawyers' Fund for Client
Protection (w/o encls.)
Hillary Horton, Deputy Ethics Counsel, Office of
Attorney Ethics (w/o encls.)
Benjamin Morton (w/o encls.)