Matter of Fulton , 152 A.D.3d 950 ( 2017 )

Matter of Fulton (2017 NY Slip Op 05663)

Matter of Fulton

2017 NY Slip Op 05663

Decided on July 13, 2017

Appellate Division, Third Department

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

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Decided and Entered: July 13, 2017

[*1]In the Matter of ALLISON FULTON, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 4394623)

Calendar Date: June 26, 2017
Before: Peters, P.J., Egan Jr., Rose, Aarons and Rumsey, JJ.

Allison Fulton, Washington, DC, pro se.

Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany, for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

Allison Fulton was admitted to practice by this Court in 2006 and lists a business address in Washington, DC with the Office of Court Administration. By affidavit sworn to June 6, 2017 and filed June 7, 2017, Fulton now seeks leave to resign from the New York bar for nondisciplinary reasons (see Uniform 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 Fulton's application by correspondence dated June 21, 2017.

Upon reading the affidavit of Fulton, and upon reading the correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Fulton is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant her application and accept her resignation.

Peters, P.J., Egan Jr., Rose, Aarons and Rumsey, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Allison Fulton's application for permission to resign is granted and her nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

ORDERED that Allison Fulton'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 Uniform Rules for Attorney Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [b]); and it is further

ORDERED that, effective immediately, Allison Fulton 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 [*2]agent, clerk or employee of another; and Fulton 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 herself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law in this State; and it is further

ORDERED that Allison Fulton shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to her.