In the Matter of Finnerty

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• holding that attorney’s submission of false evidence under the penalties of perjury in his own divorce action violated DR 1-102 [A] [4]-[6]
• suspending attorney for six months for intentionally misrepresenting his financial worth to court as several hundred thousand dollars less than amount of which he was aware
• finding immaterial that opposing counsel had stipulated to misrepresented valuation of law practice
• “ ‘primary factor’ in bar discipline is ‘the effect upon, and perception of, the public and the bar’ ”
• attorney’s intentional misrepresentation of financial worth to court
• six-month suspension for misrepresentation to court with mitigation

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