In re Somers

Respondent was admitted to the Bar in this Department in December, 1926. A Referee has found that charges that respondent grossly neglected to prosecute a client’s action, in which he had been substituted, and that he had failed to co-operate with the Committee on Grievances of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, have been sustained. Our review of the record convinces us that the evidence supports the findings of the Referee.

While, as the Referee reported, the client may have contributed to the neglect of his cause, there is no question but that respondent’s neglect was the…