Case ID: ad2d_304/html/0284-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[758 NYS2d 534]
    In the Matter of Ormond N. Smith, a Suspended Attorney, Respondent. Grievance Committee for the Second and Eleventh Judicial Districts, Petitioner.
    Second Department,
    May 5, 2003
    APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Diana Maxfield Kearse, Brooklyn (Mark F. DeWan of counsel), for petitioner.
    
      Ormond N. Smith, Staten Island, respondent pro se.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Per Curiam.

On December 3, 2002, the respondent entered a plea of guilty in the Supreme Court, Kings County, to four counts of grand larceny in the third degree, a class D felony, in violation of Penal Law § 155.35.

Pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90 (4), a person ceases to be an attorney upon conviction of a felony. By virtue of his felony conviction, the respondent was automatically disbarred. Accordingly, the petitioner’s motion to strike his name from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law is granted, effective immediately.

Prudenti, P.J., Ritter, Santucci, Altman and S. Miller, JJ., concur.

Ordered that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, effective immediately, the respondent, Ormond N. Smith, 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 (see 22 NYCRR 691.10); and it is further,

Ordered that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, effective immediately, Ormond N. Smith is commanded to continue 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.