In re Wiegen

By decision dated April 6,1984, this *1013court suspended respondent from the practice of law for six months because he (1) solicited by mail the victims and families of the Hyatt Regency Hotel disaster in Kansas City, Missouri in July 1981, (2) made deceptive and misleading statements in the solicitation letters to the effect that a “litigation coordinating committee” had been formed to assist the disaster victims and that many accident victims and/or their families had requested representation by respondent, and (3) used a trade name, i.e, “The Country Lawyer” (.Matter of Von Wiegen, 101 AD2d…