MATTER OF ZAPATA


46 A.D.2d 333 (1974)

In the Matter of Manuel N. Zapata and Sara Halbert, Attorneys, Respondents. 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.

December 30, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Bonomi of counsel (Saul Friedberg with him on the brief), for petitioner.

Charles S. Desmond for respondents.

MARKEWICH, J. P., LUPIANO, STEUER, TILZER and CAPOZZOLI, JJ., concur.


Per Curiam.

Respondents, who are partners, were both admitted to the practice of law in 1956. They stand charged with two specifications of professional misconduct: that, having been retained by a client in the City of Newburgh in a case against that city involving the death of an infant daughter and injuries to other family members, all resulting from a fire, they neglected the case until after the Statute of Limitations had run, and without notifying the...

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