In re Brill

OPINION OF THE COURT

Petitioner, the Departmental Disciplinary Committee for the First Department, seeks an order confirming the findings of fact and conclusions of law of a hearing panel and directing that respondent be suspended from the practice of law for six months.

Respondent was admitted to practice in the Second Department on February 3, 1937, and maintains an office in the First Department.

The charge which was sustained, and to which respondent offered no defense before the hearing panel other than that he was in ill health, was that he neglected an estate matter and failed to carry…