Case Name: In the Matter of Robert J. Clark, a Suspended Attorney, Respondent. Grievance Committee for the Second and Eleventh Judicial Districts, Petitioner
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1992-04-20
Citations: 180 A.D.2d 1
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Robert J. Clark, a Suspended Attorney, Respondent. Grievance Committee for the Second and Eleventh Judicial Districts, Petitioner.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 180
Pages: 1–3

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Robert J. Clark, a Suspended Attorney, Respondent. Grievance Committee for the Second and Eleventh Judicial Districts, Petitioner.
Second Department,
April 20, 1992
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Robert H. Straus (Diana J. Szochet of counsel), for petitioner.
Legal Aid Society (Elliot Cook of counsel), for respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Per Curiam.
On October 23, 1991, the respondent was convicted in the Supreme Court, New York County, upon his plea of guilty, of the crimes of grand larceny in the second degree in violation of Penal Law § 155.40, a class C felony; grand larceny in the third degree in violation of Penal Law § 155.35, a class D felony; criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree in violation of Penal Law § 170.25, a class D felony; criminal possession of a forged instrument in the third degree in violation of Penal Law § 170.20, a class A misdemeanor; and petit larceny in violation of Penal Law § 155.25, a class A misdemeanor.
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. The respondent is disbarred and his name is stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law, effective immediately.
Mangano, P. J., Thompson, Sullivan, Harwood and Balletta, JJ., concur.
Ordered that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, effective immediately, the respondent Robert J. Clark 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 (22 NYCRR 691.10); and it is further,
Ordered that pursuant to Judiciary Law §90, the respondent Robert J. Clark is commanded to continue 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.