Matter of Zaurdo , 2023 NY Slip Op 01726 ( 2023 )

Matter of Zaurdo (2023 NY Slip Op 01726)

Matter of Zaurdo

2023 NY Slip Op 01726

Decided on March 30, 2023

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:March 30, 2023

PM-72-23

[*1]In the Matter of Cesar Fabian Zaurdo, a Suspended Attorney. Committee on Professional Standards, Now Known as Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Petitioner; Cesar Fabian Zaurdo, Respondent. (Attorney Registration No. 2632909.)

Calendar Date:December 12, 2022
Before:

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

Cesar Fabian Zaurdo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, respondent pro se.

Motion by respondent for an order reinstating him to the practice of law following his suspension by September 2009 order of this Court (Matter of Attorneys in Violation of Judiciary Law § 468-a, 65 AD3d 1447, 1482 [3d Dept 2009]; see Rules for Attorney Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.16; Rules of App Div, 3d Dept [22 NYCRR] § 806.16 [c] [5]).

Upon reading respondent's notice of motion and affidavit with exhibits sworn to October 26, 2022, his supplemental correspondence with attachments dated December 1, 2022 and the December 9, 2022 correspondence of the Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, and having determined, by clear and convincing evidence, that (1) respondent has complied with the order of suspension and the Rules of this Court, (2) respondent has the requisite character and fitness to practice law, and (3) it would be in the public interest to reinstate respondent to the practice of law (see Matter of Attorneys in Violation of Judiciary Law § 468-a [Yamashita], 176 AD3d 1382, 1383 [3d Dept 2019]), it is,

ORDERED that respondent's motion for reinstatement is granted; and it is further

ORDERED that respondent is reinstated as an attorney and counselor-at-law, effective immediately.

Egan Jr., J.P., Lynch, Aarons, Ceresia and McShan, JJ., concur.