In Re Disbarment Proceedings

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Kephart,

These proceedings originated in a letter from the President Judge of Common Pleas No. 2, Philadelphia County, addressed to the Chancellor of the Bar Association. That letter stated that there was a firm and widespread belief that criminal gangs and racketeers regularly employed members of the bar; that they obtained professional advice and guidance from these attorneys in their systematic lawbreaking; and that the actual defendants, gangsters’ agents, are represented by counsel whom they have never seen or heard of until the attorneys appear beside them at…