In re Rothenberg

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. Bespondent pleaded guilty to an indictment based on these facts and was sentenced to a year in prison. This court later reduced the sentence to five…