In Re Disbarment of Robert J. McDonald

In this disciplinary proceeding the court is confronted with a record of nearly 3,000 typewritten pages, by the findings of the referee of 74 printed pages, and briefs of 800 pages. It is not possible in an opinion to deal with this mass of material exhaustively or satisfactorily.

The petitioner, the State Board of Law Examiners, charges the respondent, Robert J. McDonald, licensed to practice law in this state in 1920, of professional misconduct in maintaining a system or organized plan for soliciting personal injury cases arising in this and other states, and therein has employed lawyers and…