In Re Songjun Yi , 153 A.D.3d 1087 ( 2017 )

Matter of Yi (2017 NY Slip Op 06138)

Matter of Yi

2017 NY Slip Op 06138

Decided on August 10, 2017

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: August 10, 2017

[*1]In the Matter of JEFFERSON SONGJUN YI, an Attorney.

(Attorney Registration No. 5200407) Calendar Date: August 7, 2017
Before: Garry, J.P., Lynch, Rose, Mulvey and Aarons, JJ.

Jefferson Songjun Yi, Irving, Texas, pro se.

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

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

Jefferson Songjun Yi was admitted to practice by this Court in 2014 and lists a business address in Tompkins County with the Office of Court Administration. Yi now seeks leave to resign from the New York bar for nondisciplinary reasons (see Uniform 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 Yi's application.

Upon reading the affidavit of Yi sworn to June 29, 2017 and filed with this Court on July 3, 2017, and upon reading the August 2, 2017 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Yi is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.

Garry, J.P., Lynch, Rose, Mulvey and Aarons, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Jefferson Songjun Yi's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

ORDERED that Jefferson Songjun Yi'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 Uniform Rules for Attorney Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [b]); and it is further

ORDERED that, effective immediately, Jefferson Songjun Yi

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 Yi 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 Jefferson Songjun Yi shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.