Three attorneys were recently sanctioned by Superior Court orders, including a Massachusetts attorney who fatally struck a pedestrian, a Long Island lawyer who was convicted of mortgage fraud and a veteran attorney based in midtown Manhattan who opted to resign rather than face a reciprocal one-year suspension.
Erin M. O’Connor
Erin M. O’Connor, a bankruptcy attorney admitted to practice law in Massachusetts and Connecticut, pleaded guilty in the Eastern Hampshire District Court in Massachusetts to negligent homicide with a motor vehicle, a misdemeanor, on Dec. 16, 2019, after killing an elderly pedestrian in a crosswalk, according to a report from the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court.
