Court Opinion

ID: 8229459
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-15 17:18:14.906825+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:42:34.742063
License: Public Domain

This matter have been duly presented pursuant to Rule 1:20-10(b), following a granting of a motion for discipline by consent in **187DRB 18-103 of JOSEPH ALBANO of CLIFTON, who was admitted to the bar of this State in 1987;
And the Office of Attorney Ethics and respondent having signed a stipulation of discipline by consent in which it was agreed that respondent violated RPC 5.5(a) (unauthorized practice of law);
And the parties having agreed that respondent's conduct violated RPC 5.5(a), and that said conduct warrants a reprimand or a censure, or lesser discipline as determined by the Disciplinary Review Board;
And the Disciplinary Review Board having determined that a censure is the appropriate discipline for respondent's unethical conduct and having granted the motion for discipline by consent in District Docket No. XIV-2017-0118E;
And the Disciplinary Review Board having submitted the record of the proceedings to the Clerk of the Supreme Court for the entry of an order of discipline in accordance with Rule 1:20-16(e);
And good cause appearing;
It is ORDERED that JOSEPH ALBANO of CLIFTON is hereby censured; and it is further *355ORDERED that the entire record of this matter be made a permanent part of respondent's file as an attorney at law of this State; and it is further
ORDERED that respondent reimburse the Disciplinary Oversight Committee for appropriate administrative costs and actual expenses incurred in the prosecution of this matter, as provided in Rule 1:20-17.
WITNESS, the Honorable Stuart Rabner, Chief Justice, at Trenton, this 20th day of July, 2018.