Matter of Otor-Osagie ( 2022 )

Matter of Otor-Osagie (2022 NY Slip Op 05578)

Matter of Otor-Osagie

2022 NY Slip Op 05578

Decided on October 6, 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:October 6, 2022

PM-170-22

[*1]In the Matter of Augustine Ogbebor Otor-Osagie, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 4043915.)

Calendar Date:October 3, 2022
Before:Garry, P.J., Lynch, Clark, Aarons and Ceresia, JJ.

Augustine Ogbebor Otor-Osagie, Bromwich, West Midlands, United Kingdom, 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.

Augustine Ogbebor Otor-Osagie was admitted to practice by this Court in 2002 and lists a business address in Birmingham, United Kingdom with the Office of Court Administration. Otor-Osagie 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 Otor-Osagie's application.

Upon reading Otor-Osagie's affidavit sworn to August 5, 2022 and filed August 15, 2022, and upon reading the September 28, 2022 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Otor-Osagie is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.

Garry, P.J., Lynch, Clark, Aarons and Ceresia, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Augustine Ogbebor Otor-Osagie's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

ORDERED that Augustine Ogbebor Otor-Osagie'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 Augustine Ogbebor Otor-Osagie 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 Otor-Osagie 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 Augustine Ogbebor Otor-Osagie shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.