Filed Date: 3/22/2004
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 11/1/2024
Respondent was admitted to practice by this Court in 1996 and maintains a law office in Latham, Albany County.
Respondent was previously suspended by this Court for one year with the suspension stayed upon certain conditions (Matter of Reilly, 309 AD2d 965 [2003]). Petitioner now moves to vacate the stay of respondent’s suspension or, in the alternative, suspend him from the practice of law pursuant to Rules of this Court (22 NYCRR) § 806.4 (f) until such time as a final order shall be entered in a disciplinary proceeding recently commenced against him.
Respondent admits mishandling funds in his attorney escrow
Cardona, P.J., Peters, Carpinello and Kane, JJ., concur. Ordered that petitioner’s motion is granted; and it is further ordered that the stay of respondent’s suspension is hereby vacated, and respondent is suspended from the practice of law immediately and until further order of this Court; and it is further ordered that respondent, while so suspended from practice, is commanded to desist and refrain from the practice of law in any form, either as principal or as agent, clerk or employee of another; he is forbidden to appear as an attorney and 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; and it is further ordered that respondent shall comply with the provisions of this Court’s rules regulating the conduct of suspended attorneys (see 22 NYCRR 806.9).