Legal Opinion

In re Somers

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided January 20, 1976PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Per curiam

Petitioner moves to confirm in part and to disaffirm in part the supplemental report of the Referee to whom charges of professional misconduct against respondent, who was admitted to practice in the First Judicial Department on December 13, 1926, were resubmitted following modification of our previously entered order of disbarment (see Matter of Somers, 46 AD2d 517 and 47 AD2d 882).

On the resubmission the Referee sustained one charge alleging, in substance, that respondent accepted a fee to represent a client but failed to take any effective steps in his behalf or to return the unearned fee,…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. In re SomersAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1960
  2. In re SomersAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1975
  3. In re SomersAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1965
  4. In re SomersAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1975

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. In re PayneCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2013
  2. In re CellinoAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2005
  3. In re DwyerAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2001
  4. Matter of GilliamAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2020
  5. In re BillingsleyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2005

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