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In re Burger

Supreme Court of New Jersey
Feb 16, 2010
201 N.J. 120 (N.J. 2010)

Opinion

February 16, 2010.


ORDER

The Disciplinary Review Board having filed with the Court its decision in DRB 09-243, concluding that MARTIN BURGER of PALISADES PARK, who was admitted to the bar of this State in 1953, should be reprimanded for violating RPC 5.4(a) (sharing legal fees with nonlawyer employee), and RPC 7.3(d) (compensating or giving anything of value to a person to recommend or secure the lawyer's employment by a client, or as a reward for having made a recommendation resulting in the lawyer's employment by a client), and good cause appearing;

It is ORDERED that MARTIN BURGER is hereby reprimanded; and it is further

ORDERED that the entire record of this matter be made a permanent part of respondent's file as an attorney at law of this State; and it is further

ORDERED that respondent reimburse the Disciplinary Oversight Committee for appropriate administrative costs and actual expenses incurred in the prosecution of this matter, as provided in Rule 1:20-17.


Summaries of

In re Burger

Supreme Court of New Jersey
Feb 16, 2010
201 N.J. 120 (N.J. 2010)
Case details for

In re Burger

Case Details

Full title:IN THE MATTER OF MARTIN BURGER, AN ATTORNEY AT LAW

Court:Supreme Court of New Jersey

Date published: Feb 16, 2010

Citations

201 N.J. 120 (N.J. 2010)
987 A.2d 617

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