Matter of Mantell ( 2023 )

Matter of Mantell (2023 NY Slip Op 04399)

Matter of Mantell

2023 NY Slip Op 04399

Decided on August 24, 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:August 24, 2023

PM-181-23

[*1]In the Matter of Bruce E. Mantell, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 2050821.)

Calendar Date:August 14, 2023
Before:Egan Jr., J.P., Clark, Pritzker, Ceresia and McShan, JJ.

Bruce E. Mantell, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, 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.

Bruce E. Mantell was admitted to practice by this Court in 1986 and lists a business address in Basking Ridge, New Jersey with the Office of Court Administration. Mantell now seeks leave to resign from the New York bar for nondisciplinary reasons (see Rules for Atty Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [a]). The Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department (hereinafter AGC) advises that it does not oppose Mantell's application.

Upon reading Mantell's affidavit sworn to May 24, 2023 and filed June 20, 2023, and upon reading the August 2, 2023 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Mantell is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.

Egan Jr., J.P., Clark, Pritzker, Ceresia and McShan, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Bruce E. Mantell's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

ORDERED that Bruce E. Mantell'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 Atty Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [b]); and it is further

ORDERED that Bruce E. Mantell 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 Mantell 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 Bruce E. Mantell shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.