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Local lawyer suspended for 60 days for letters with profanity

By Kate Clements
Thursday September 20, 2007

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a 60-day license suspension for Urbana attorney Marvin I. Gerstein, a penalty agreed to in a deal he signed with the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.

The suspension was prompted by two profanity-laced letters Gerstein wrote to an Urbana public works official in 2005, in the midst of a dispute with the city over vegetation on his property.

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