MATTER OF ROTHENBERG


18 A.D.2d 397 (1963)

In the Matter of Louis I. Rothenberg, an Attorney, Respondent. Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Petitioner

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

May 2, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Bonomi of counsel (Raymond P. Whearty with him on the brief), for petitioner.

Harold I. Panken for respondent.

BREITEL, J. P., RABIN, McNALLY, STEVENS and STEUER, JJ., concur.


Per Curiam.

Respondent was admitted to the Bar in 1927. He has been charged with extensive solicitation of negligence actions, filing false retainer agreements, and fee-splitting with laymen. Specifically, respondent had close association with a group of lay ambulance chasers who brazenly sold retainers from persons injured in accidents. The charges in addition to solicitation arose out of the handling of the cases which respondent received from this ring....

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