In re Zirinsky

We do not agree with the learned referee that the proceedings should be dismissed upon the theory that the attorney was not guilty of misconduct. As we said heretofore in this proceeding (161 App. Div. 958), the submission of an illegal and an excessive bill of costs is a serious offense. (Matter of Mashbir, 44 App. Div. 632.) The attorney did not establish propriety of conduct in the taxation of his costs; for there appears no justification for the insertion of some items in his bill, and also no sufficient proof that the amounts of other items were legal or were proper. The attorney’s only…