Case ID: ad2d_194/html/0299-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

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    In the Matter of Bernard Melvin Seeman, an Attorney, Respondent. Grievance Committee for the Tenth Judicial District, Petitioner.
    Second Department,
    January 10, 1994
    APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Frank A. Finnerty, Jr., Syosset (Nancy A. Bolger of counsel), for petitioner.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Per Curiam.

On June 28, 1993, the respondent was convicted, upon a jury verdict, in the County Court, Nassau County, of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree (Penal Law § 170.25), a class D felony, and grand larceny in the second degree (Penal Law § 155.40), a class C felony.

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., Thompson, Bracken, Sullivan and Rosenblatt, JJ., concur.

Ordered that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, effective immediately, the respondent, Bernard Melvin Seeman, 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 (22 NYCRR 691.10); and it is further,

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