Morris Eisen was one of the most celebrated personal injury attorneys in NY.  His Woolworth Building offices buzzed, usually starting around 5:30 a.m., while firm attorneys and outsiders who were trying a case for Eisen that day would gather for breakfast and a pep talk.

All that ended with his downfall, which started when NYC officials proved that Eisen people actually improved a pot hole to make a case better.  He went to jail, the firm disbanded, and everything came to an end.  However, there was a huge inventory of personal injury cases, which were referred out to others.

Now, years after he went to jail and came back, the litigation over legal fees continues.,

"A lawsuit initiated by former personal-injury attorney Morris J. Eisen against a law firm that allegedly failed to pay him for work he performed on cases he referred to it when he was disbarred will go forward following a Manhattan judge’s denial of the firm’s motion to dismiss.

Mr. Eisen was disbarred in 1992 by the Appellate Division, First Department, based on his conviction the preceding year for racketeering.

At his criminal trial, prosecutors presented evidence that Mr. Eisen and six co-defendants won multi-million dollar verdicts by fabricating evidence and bribing witnesses. They smashed a car with a sledgehammer to increase the apparent damage, enlarged a pot hole with a pick ax to exaggerate its danger and used shrunken images of rulers to make potholes appear deeper, prosecutors claimed. A co-conspirator allegedly paid a witness to proffer the same testimony regarding two different car accidents, one of which occurred while the witness was in jail for possession of stolen property.

Mr. Eisen was sentenced to 57 months in prison and was released after serving three years. He was disbarred in January 1992.

Following his release, Mr. Eisen initiated a series of suits against firms he claimed wrongfully withheld his share of the legal fees on cases he referred to them.

In the present suit, Landau v. Shapiro, Uchman & Myers, 600510/07, Mr. Eisen claimed that Shapiro, Uchman & Meyers failed to compensate him for cases resolved both before and after his disbarment. "