“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.