In re Fields

Respondent was admitted to practice in the Second Judicial Department on May 8,1935.

Serious allegations (one charge) of professional misconduct were preferred against respondent involving, among other things, commingling and converting a client’s funds, settling the claim of a client and her two infant children without the client’s knowledge or consent, forging his client’s name to a petition and related documents seeking approval of the unauthorized settlement in the Surrogate’s Court, falsely certifying a copy of the order issued by that court, thereby converting his client’s funds. It…