Matter of French , 2019 NY Slip Op 8760 ( 2019 )

Matter of French (2019 NY Slip Op 08760)

Matter of French

2019 NY Slip Op 08760

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-216-19

[*1]In the Matter of Lydia Eve French, An Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 4485918.)

Calendar Date: November 25, 2019
Before: Garry, P.J., Clark, Mulvey, Aarons and Pritzker, JJ.

Lydia Eve French, Roslindale, Massachusetts, 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.

Lydia Eve French was admitted to practice by this Court in 2007 and lists a business address in Boston, Massachusetts with the Office of Court Administration. French 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 French's application.

Upon reading French's affidavit sworn to October 19, 2019 and filed October 22, 2019, and upon reading the November 19, 2019 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that French is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant her application and accept her resignation.

Garry, P.J., Clark, Mulvey, Aarons and Pritzker, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Lydia Eve French's application for permission to resign is granted and her nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

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