John Mahoney

Informal Admonition (June 9, 2016)

Summary: Disciplinary Counsel issued Mahoney an informal admonition for failing to protect a client’s confidences and secrets when he included detailed information about a client and her case in response to a website posting. Thereafter, respondent further violated the Rules by posting another response on the Web site stating that Disciplinary Counsel had cleared him and quoted a sentence from a letter that omitted information about the alleged Rule 1.6 violation that Disciplinary Counsel found meritorious. Rules 1.6 and 8.4(c).