Attorney/Judicial Misconduct: Investigation and Removal of Clerk Magistrate

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court appointed us to investigate and, if appropriate, prosecute a Clerk-Magistrate for wrongdoing. After a six-day trial and appeal to the state supreme court, the court, for the first time in fifteen years, ordered the removal of a Clerk Magistrate from office. In re Powers, 465 Mass. 63 (2013).