Matter of Thorogood , 2022 NY Slip Op 00110 ( 2022 )

Matter of Thorogood (2022 NY Slip Op 00110)

Matter of Thorogood

2022 NY Slip Op 00110

Decided on January 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:January 6, 2022

PM-07-22

[*1]In the Matter of Josiah James Thorogood, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 5540414.)

Calendar Date:January 3, 2022
Before:Garry, P.J., Aarons, Pritzker, Reynolds Fitzgerald and Colangelo, JJ.

Josiah James Thorogood, Milverton, Ontario, Canada,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.

Josiah James Thorogood was admitted to practice by this Court in 2017 and lists a business address in Milverton, Ontario, Canada with the Office of Court Administration. Thorogood 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 Thorogood's application.

Upon reading Thorogood's affidavit sworn to October 27, 2021 and filed November 12, 2021, supplemental affidavit sworn to November 4, 2021 and filed November 15, 2021, and upon reading the December 29, 2021 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Thorogood is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.

Garry, P.J., Aarons, Pritzker, Reynolds Fitzgerald and Colangelo, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Josiah James Thorogood's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

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