In re Cohen
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Application on the report of official referee upon charges against the respondent, an attorney and counselor at law, for professional misconduct.
1Per curiam
The respondent is charged with having taken advantage of the inexperience and necessities of a client to extort from him an exorbitant and unconscionable fee for certain legal services rendered, and it is also charged that after an order had been made requiring him to repay a large part of the fee retained, *545he fled from the jurisdiction of the court to avoid the enforcement of its order.
On the first charge the official referee has exonerated the respondent; on the second he has found him guilty.
The evidence, which we have not failed to examine with care, shows that in the year 1908 the…
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