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Matter of Gordon (2022 NY Slip Op 07289)

Matter of Gordon

2022 NY Slip Op 07289

Decided on December 22, 2022

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:December 22, 2022

PM-230-22
[*1]In the Matter of Joseph Leonard Gordon, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 4849592.)

Calendar Date:December 19, 2022

Before:Garry, P.J., Lynch, Clark, Reynolds Fitzgerald and Fisher, JJ.

Joseph Leonard Gordon, Springfield, Pennsylvania, 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.
Joseph Leonard Gordon was admitted to practice by this Court in 2010 and lists a business address in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with the Office of Court Administration. Gordon now seeks 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) advises that it does not oppose Gordon's application.
Upon reading Gordon's affidavit sworn to November 16, 2022 and filed November 21, 2022, and upon reading the December 14, 2022 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Gordon is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.
Garry, P.J., Lynch, Clark, Reynolds Fitzgerald and Fisher, JJ., concur.
ORDERED that Joseph Leonard Gordon's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further
ORDERED that Joseph Leonard Gordon'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 Joseph Leonard Gordon 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 Gordon 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 Joseph Leonard Gordon shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.