Matter of Gielen , 2019 NY Slip Op 8767 ( 2019 )

Matter of Gielen (2019 NY Slip Op 08767)

Matter of Gielen

2019 NY Slip Op 08767

Decided on December 5, 2019

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 5, 2019

PM-223-19

[*1]In the Matter of Price Owen Gielen, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 5339825.)

Calendar Date: December 2, 2019
Before: Lynch, J.P., Devine, Aarons, Pritzker and Reynolds Fitzgerald, JJ.

Price Owen Gielen, Ellicott City, Maryland, 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.

Price Owen Gielen was admitted to practice by this Court in 2015 and lists a business address in Baltimore, Maryland with the Office of Court Administration. Gielen 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 Gielen's application.

Upon reading Gielen's affidavit sworn to October 17, 2019 and filed October 21, 2019, and upon reading the November 19, 2019 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Gielen is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.

Lynch, J.P., Devine, Aarons, Pritzker and Reynolds Fitzgerald, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Price Owen Gielen's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

ORDERED that Price Owen Gielen'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 Price Owen Gielen 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 Gielen 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 Price Owen Gielen shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.