In Re Reisdorf

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Handler, J.

These disciplinary proceedings had their inception in a fee complaint brought by one Janet Tell against a Newark law firm before the Somerset County Ethics Committee. That Committee contacted the Union County Ethics Committee which in turn issued a statement of charges in lieu of complaint against respondent, Edward Gary Reisdorf, and his law partner, Robert H. Jaffe.. These charges were based upon a complaint that the law firm had earlier brought against Reisdorf in a probate litigation seeking, i/rnter alia, to have him removed as executor…