Court Opinion

ID: 5981820
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 08:20:31.53393+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:49:28.747959
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam.
Respondent was admitted to practice by this Court in 2003. He apparently currently resides in West Virginia.
Respondent has failed to comply with a subpoena duces tecum dated December 3, 2013, pursuant to which petitioner directed respondent to appear at petitioner’s office on December 18, 2013 to give testimony and to produce records relevant to its investigation of certain pending complaints against him. Respondent has further failed to reply to petitioner’s instant motion to suspend him from practice pending his full compliance with the subpoena (see 22 NYCRR 806.4 [b]). Under the circumstances, we grant petitioner’s motion and suspend respondent from the practice of law, effective 20 days from the date of this decision, pending his full compliance with the subpoena and until further order of this Court (see e.g. Matter of McCormick, 75 AD3d 1049 [2010]; Matter of Ashe, 300 AD2d 737 [2002]).
Lahtinen, J.E, Stein, Garry and Rose, JJ., concur. Ordered that petitioner’s motion is granted; and it is further ordered that respondent is suspended from the practice of law, effective 20 days from the date of this decision, pending his full compliance with the subpoena duces tecum dated December 3, 2013, and until further order of this Court; and it is further ordered that, for the period of suspension, 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 ordered that respondent shall comply with the provisions of this Court’s rules regulating the conduct of suspended attorneys (see 22 NYCRR 806.9).