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ID: 4677526
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Date Created: 2021-04-15 14:09:54.349001+00
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Matter of Foard (2021 NY Slip Op 02338)

Matter of Foard

2021 NY Slip Op 02338

Decided on April 15, 2021

Appellate Division, Third Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided and Entered:April 15, 2021

PM-48-21
[*1]In the Matter of Richard W. Foard III, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 1684901).

Calendar Date:April 12, 2021

Before:Lynch, J.P., Clark, Aarons, Pritzker and Colangelo, JJ.

Richard W. Foard III, Inglewood, California, pro se.
Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany, for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.

Per Curiam.
Richard W. Foard III was admitted to practice by this Court in 1980 and lists a business address in Inglewood, California with the Office of Court Administration. Foard has applied to this Court, by affidavit sworn to December 15, 2020, for leave to resign from the New York bar for nondisciplinary reasons (see Rules for Attorney Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [a]). The Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department (hereinafter AGC) opposes the application, contending that Foard is ineligible for nondisciplinary resignation because he has failed to fulfill his attorney registration requirements for the most recent biennial period beginning in 2020 (see Judiciary Law § 468-a; Matter of Lee, 148 AD3d 1350 [2017]; Matter of Bomba, 146 AD3d 1226, 1226-1227 [2017]; Rules of the Chief Admin of Cts [22 NYCRR] § 118.1).
In reply to AGC's opposition, however, Foard has submitted correspondence in which he represents that he is now current in his New York attorney registration requirements. Consistent with his representation, Office of Court Administration records establish that Foard has duly registered and cured any preexisting registration delinquency. Accordingly, with AGC voicing no other substantive objection to his application, and having determined that Foard is now eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons (compare Matter of Tierney, 148 AD3d 1457, 1458 [2017]; Matter of Bomba, 146 AD3d at 1227), we grant the application and accept his resignation.
Lynch, J.P., Clark, Aarons, Pritzker and Colangelo, JJ., concur.
ORDERED that Richard W. Foard III's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further
ORDERED that Richard W. Foard III's name is hereby stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law of the State of New York, effective immediately, and until further order of this Court (see generally Rules for Attorney Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [b]); and it is further
ORDERED that Richard W. Foard III is commanded to desist and refrain from the practice of law in any form in the State of New York, either as principal or as agent, clerk or employee of another; and Foard 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, or to hold himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law in this State; and it is further
ORDERED that Richard W. Foard III shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.