State of New York

Supreme Court, Appellate Division

Third Judicial Department

Decided and Entered: June 16, 2016 D-32-16 

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In the Matter of ALI

EBRAHIMZADEH, an Attorney. MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

 ON MOTION

(Attorney Registration No. 5184148)

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Calendar Date: May 23, 2016

Before: Lahtinen, J.P., Egan Jr., Lynch, Devine and Aarons, JJ.

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Monica A. Duffy, Committee on Professional Standards,

Albany (Alison M. Coan of counsel), for Committee on Professional

Standards.

Ali Ebrahimzadeh, Oakland, California, pro se.

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Per Curiam.

Ali Ebrahimzadeh was admitted to practice by this Court in

2013. He was admitted to practice in California in 2003, where

he maintains an office for the practice of law.

Pursuant to a stipulation with the California State Bar

Court, Ebrahimzadeh admitted violating California Rules of

Professional Conduct, Rule 4-200 (A), which prohibits an attorney

from charging or collecting "an illegal or unconscionable fee." 

In the stipulation, Ebrahimzadeh admitted charging and collecting

such a fee from a vulnerable client with diminished capacity. As

a sanction, the Supreme Court of California, by order filed

December 16, 2015, among other things, suspended Ebrahimzadeh

from the practice of law for two years, with all but the first

six months stayed. Ebrahimzadeh provided timely notice to this

Court of the disciplinary order as required by Rules of the

Appellate Division, Third Department (22 NYCRR) § 806.19 (b). 
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The Committee on Professional Standards now moves pursuant to

Rules of the Appellate Division, Third Department (22 NYCRR)

§ 806.19 for an order imposing discipline upon Ebrahimzadeh by

reason of the discipline imposed in California. Ebrahimzadeh has

submitted a response which presents only arguments in mitigation

and does not raise any of the available defenses to said motion

(see Rules of App Div, 3d Dept [22 NYCRR] § 806.19 [d]).

We grant the Committee's motion and further conclude that,

upon consideration of all of the facts and circumstances,

including the discipline imposed in California, Ebrahimzadeh

should be suspended in this state for a period of six months (see

Matter of Yehl, 90 AD3d 1139 [2011]; Matter of Channing, 66 AD3d

1110, 1111 [2009]; Matter of Convery, 284 AD2d 557 [2001]).

Lahtinen, J.P., Egan Jr., Lynch, Devine and Aarons, JJ.,

concur.

ORDERED that the motion of the Committee on Professional

Standards is granted; and it is further

ORDERED that Ali Ebrahimzadeh is suspended from the

practice of law for a period of six months, effective

immediately, and until further order of this Court; and it is

further

ORDERED that, for the period of suspension, Ali

Ebrahimzadeh is commanded to desist and refrain from the practice

of law in any form, either as principal or as agent, clerk or

employee of another; and Ebrahimzadeh is forbidden to appear as

an attorney or counselor-at-law before any court, judge, justice,

board, commission or other public authority, or to give to

another an opinion as to the law or its application, or any

advice in relation thereto; and it is further
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ORDERED that Ali Ebrahimzadeh shall comply with the

provisions of this Court's rules regulating the conduct of

suspended attorneys (see Rules of App Div, 3d Dept [22 NYCRR]

§ 806.9).

ENTER:

Robert D. Mayberger

Clerk of the Court