Opinion
PM-80-19
06-20-2019
In the MATTER OF Laura Lynn MONA, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 5110382)
Laura Lynn Mona, Weatherford, Texas, pro se. Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany, for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.
Laura Lynn Mona, Weatherford, Texas, pro se.
Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany, for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.
Before: Garry, P.J., Egan Jr., Lynch, Rumsey and Pritzker, JJ.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON MOTION
Per Curiam.Laura Lynn Mona was admitted to practice by this Court in 2013 and lists a business address in Fort Worth, Texas with the Office of Court Administration. Mona 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 Mona's application.
Upon reading Mona's affidavit sworn to May 8, 2019 and filed May 13, 2019, and upon reading the June 11, 2019 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Mona is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant her application and accept her resignation.
Garry, P.J., Egan Jr., Lynch, Rumsey and Pritzker, JJ., concur.
ORDERED that Laura Lynn Mona's application for permission to resign is granted and her nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further
ORDERED that Laura Lynn Mona'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 Laura Lynn Mona 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 Mona 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 herself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law in this State; and it is further
ORDERED that Laura Lynn Mona shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to her.