State of New York

Supreme Court, Appellate Division

Third Judicial Department

Decided and Entered: July 31, 2014 D-36-14

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In the Matter of ANTHONY P.

CALISI, an Attorney.

COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL 

STANDARDS,

Petitioner; MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ANTHONY P. CALISI,

Respondent.

(Attorney Registration No. 2607299)

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Calendar Date: June 30, 2014

Before: Lahtinen, J.P., McCarthy, Rose, Egan Jr. and Lynch, JJ.

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Monica A. Duffy, Committee on Professional Standards,

Albany (Alison M. Coan of counsel), for petitioner.

Anthony P. Calisi, Phoenix, Arizona, respondent pro se.

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Per Curiam.

Respondent was admitted by this Court in 1994. He was

previously admitted to practice in Texas in 1978, where he

maintained an office for the practice of law.

By order dated February 15, 2012, the Supreme Court of

Texas accepted respondent's voluntary resignation of his law 

license in lieu of discipline and removed his name from the roll

of persons entitled to practice law in Texas. In its order, the

court specifically deemed to be established pending disciplinary

charges against respondent alleging neglect, failure to
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communicate with clients and failure to cooperate in the

disciplinary process. Significantly, it is undisputed that

respondent abandoned the practice of law in Texas to the serious

detriment of the clients named in the disciplinary charges. 

Petitioner moves for an order imposing discipline pursuant

to this Court's rules (see 22 NYCRR 806.19). Respondent states

in reply that he is not contesting petitioner's motion and has no

intention of ever practicing law again.

Respondent's Texas resignation was tantamount to a

disciplinary resignation pursuant to this Court's rules (see 22

NYCRR 806.8; see also Matter of Goodhart, 56 AD3d 889, 890

[2008]). We, therefore, grant petitioner's motion and further

conclude that, under the circumstances presented and in the

interest of justice, respondent should be disbarred in this state

(see Matter of Rothenberg, 116 AD3d 1334 [2014]).1

Lahtinen, J.P., McCarthy, Rose, Egan Jr. and Lynch, JJ.,

concur.

ORDERED that petitioner's motion is granted; and it is

further

ORDERED that respondent is disbarred and his name is

stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law of the

State of New York, effective immediately; and it is further

ORDERED that respondent 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 respondent is hereby

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

1 We additionally note that respondent is delinquent in his

attorney registration requirements in this state (see Judiciary

Law § 468-a).
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ORDERED that respondent shall comply with the provisions of

this Court's rules regulating the conduct of disbarred attorneys

(see 22 NYCRR 806.9). 

ENTER:

Robert D. Mayberger

Clerk of the Court