In re Benjamin

This is a disciplinary proceeding brought by petitioners, as members of the Co-ordinating Committee on Discipline of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York County Lawyers’ Association and the Bronx County Bar Association, against respondent who was admitted to practice as an attorney on October 31, 1938 in the First Judicial Department,

The charge is that respondent, while employed as an adjuster of claims for insurance companies, received and accepted from certain attorneys payments in amounts based upon a percentage of settlement in cases over which he had…