FOLLOW US

Mackenzie wrote that Bradley's testimony denying that he read the document isn't enough to establish that he never read and didn't know the false representations contained in the declaration, which Bradley had certified was "true and correct." "Any reasonable attorney — particularly a managing partner — who was even mildly interested in the firm's support for a request for a multi-million-dollar fee that his firm was seeking to be awarded, would have read it," the dissent said. The declaration also coincided with Bradley's elevation to managing partner of Thornton about two weeks prior, Mackenzie noted. "I do not believe that one of the respondent's first acts as managing partner of his firm would be to sign a short affidavit, where his firm sought a multi-million-dollar fee, without reading all of it," the dissent said. "I, therefore, do not credit that the respondent did not read the entirety of the two pages of content." The majority decision found Bradley violated professional rules requiring reasonable diligence and committed misconduct that is prejudicial to the administration of justice and adversely reflects on his fitness to practice law.