Case ID: ad2d_170/html/0122-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Bruce Jay Miller, a Suspended Attorney, Respondent. Grievance Committee for the Tenth Judicial District, Petitioner.
    Second Department,
    August 12, 1991
    APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Frank A. Finnerty, Jr., for petitioner.
    
      Siegel, Sommers & Schwartz (Robert C. Gottlieb of counsel), for respondent.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Per Curiam.

On November 9, 1990, the respondent was convicted in the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, upon his plea of guilty, of the crime of grand larceny in the fourth degree in violation of Penal Law § 155.30, which constitutes a class E felony. On January 4, 1991, the respondent was sentenced to a term of probation of five years, 420 hours of community service in lieu of 90 days in the Suffolk County jail, and restitution in the amount of $1,500 plus a 5% designated surcharge. A confession of judgment was also signed.

Pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90 (4), the respondent ceased to be an attorney and counselor-at-law upon his conviction of a felony.

Accordingly, the petitioner’s motion is granted. The respondent is disbarred and his name is stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law, effective immediately.

Mangano, P. J., Thompson, Bracken, Kunzeman and Sullivan, JJ., concur.

Ordered that the petitioner’s motion is granted; and it is further,

Ordered that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, effective immediately, the respondent Bruce Jay Miller is disbarred and his name is stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law; and it is further,

Ordered that the respondent shall continue to comply with this court’s rules governing the conduct of disbarred, suspended and resigned attorneys (22 NYCRR 691.10); and it is further,

Ordered that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, the respondent Bruce Jay Miller is commanded to continue to desist and refrain (1) from practicing law in any form, either as principal or as agent, clerk or employee of another, (2) from appearing as an attorney or counselor-at-law before any court, Judge, Justice, board, commission or other public authority, (3) from giving to another an opinion as to the law or its application or any advice in relation thereto, and (4) from holding himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law.