In re Abbott

Respondent maintains an office for the practice of law in Ithaca, Tompkins County. He was admitted to practice by this court in 1952.

Petitioner, the Committee on Professional Standards, by a *618petition of charges dated May 24, 1990, has accused respondent of engaging in improper ex parte communications with a court, sending correspondence in the course of representing his clients which contained false information and which was obviously intended to harass or maliciously injure another, aiding a nonlawyer in the unauthorized practice of law, making false and unsupported allegations in court…