Bullet Dodged — The ethics case against Michael Etkin , who defected from a law firm and temporarily pocketed fees from a firm client, ended Thursday with a three-month suspension, despite serious consideration being given to disbarment.
Etkin was part of a contingent of lawyers who left Ravin Sarasohn Cook Baumgarten Fisch & Rosen shortly before it folded in 2000 and joined Lowenstein Sandler in Roseland. In 2003, he received a $217,639 check for work done at both firms. He paid Lowenstein its $68,700 share but held onto Ravin Sarasohn’s $148,935 portion, taking out more than $30,000 in unpaid salary and putting the rest into his personal money-market account for more than a year before remitting it. He claimed he held the money pending a ruling on whether to appoint a receiver in the litigation over Ravin Sarasohn’s breakup.
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