Opinion
04-12-2018
In the Matter of DIVYA SETH, an Attorney.
Divya Seth, Woodbridge, 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.
(Attorney Registration No. 5572185) Before: McCarthy, J.P., Egan Jr., Lynch, Aarons and Pritzker, JJ.
Divya Seth, Woodbridge, 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.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
Divya Seth was admitted to practice by this Court in 2018 and lists a business address in Woodbridge, New Jersey with the Office of Court Administration. Seth 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 Seth's application by correspondence dated April 4, 2018.
Upon reading Seth's affidavit sworn to March 17, 2018 and filed March 20, 2018, and upon reading the correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Seth is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant her application and accept her resignation.
McCarthy, J.P., Egan Jr., Lynch, Aarons and Pritzker, JJ., concur.
ORDERED that Divya Seth's application for permission to resign is granted and her nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further
ORDERED that Divya Seth'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 Divya Seth 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 Seth 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 Divya Seth shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to her.