Case ID: ad2d_196/html/0298-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of Russell Small (Admitted as Russell Gary Small), an Attorney, Respondent. Grievance Committee for the Second and Eleventh Judicial Districts, Petitioner.
    [— NYS2d —]
    Second Department,
    April 4, 1994
    APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Robert H. Straus, Brooklyn (Diana J. Szochet of counsel), for petitioner.
    
      Stephen P. Scaring, Garden City, for respondent.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Per Curiam.

On December 6, 1993, the respondent was convicted, upon a jury verdict, in the County Court, Nassau County, inter alia, of the crime of criminally negligent homicide, a class E felony (see, Penal Law § 125.10).

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 without opposition from the respondent. The respondent is disbarred and his name is stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law, effective immediately.

Mangano, P. J., Bracken, Sullivan, Balletta and Gold-stein, JJ., concur.

Ordered that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, effective immediately, the respondent, Russell Small, 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 promptly comply with this Court’s rules governing the conduct of disbarred, suspended, and resigned attorneys (see, 22 NYCRR 691.10); and it is further,

Ordered that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, effective immediately, Russell Small is commanded 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.