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The lawyers, all of whom were charged with a pattern of bribes and kickbacks that occurred over several years, included Alvin Dorfman of Freeport, who had lost his bid for the 1974 nomination for Nassau County District Attorney and Thomas Rybicki, a partner in the Staten Island firm of Grae, Rybicki & Partners, who was identified in court papers as a former president of the Staten Island Trial Lawyers Association.

Also named were Fredric Grae, a partner of Mr. Rybicki, and, in a separate indictment, the entire firm headed by the two Staten Island men. Other indictments named Theodore Bushlow of Brooklyn; Joseph Levine of Hewlett on Long Island who practices in Brooklyn, and Robert F. Malerba, a partner in the firm of Malerba, Downes & Frankel in the Long Island town of Huntington.

The indictments charged the lawyers with a pattern of criminal activity intended to grease the wheels of personal injury lawsuits, which often take months or years to resolve because of the conflicting claims of people who are involved in cases like automobile accidents.

The charges describe a widespread scheme in which the lawyers engaged a network of corrupt middlemen who worked as insurance adjusters or had personal contacts inside insurance companies. The middlemen were known as ''ten percenters'' or ''ten pointers'' because their bribes were calculated as a percent of the settlement that would ultimately be received in the lawsuits.

According to the indictments announced yesterday, the insurance companies defrauded included some of the nation's largest -- Aetna, American International Group, Geico, Continental, State Farm and Fireman's Fund.

For some of the lawyers charged yesterday, the indictments described a pattern of bribery that had become almost routine. Mr. Grae and Mr. Rybicki were charged with using at least four middlemen over a period of two years and making payoffs in at least 12 cases. Mr. Dorfman, using at least two middlemen, made payoffs in at least 25 cases over 14 years, the indictment said.

Daniel R. Alonso, an assistant United States Attorney under Mr. Carter, said the maximum penalties sought against each lawyer would be five years in prison.