In re Gibson

Respondent was admitted to the Bar in this Department on March 13, 1957. On March 17, 1976 the New York State Bar Association filed charges of unprofessional conduct against respondent in which it alleged that since 1972 he had personally and without authorization endorsed clients’ names on settlement checks which were jointly payable to himself and his clients; that he had failed to make certain property tax payments which he was obligated to pay on his clients’ behalf; that he had commingled clients’ funds with his own; and that he had failed to make full and complete settlement of clients’…