Opinion
09-14-2017
In the Matter of Alan Michael TABOADA, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 4226494).
Alan Michael Taboada, Oceanport, 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.
Alan Michael Taboada, Oceanport, 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.
Before: Peters, P.J., McCarthy, Rose, Aarons and Pritzker, JJ.
PER CURIAM.Alan Michael Taboada was admitted to practice by this Court in 2004 and lists a business address in Shrewsbury, New Jersey with the Office of Court Administration. Taboada 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 Taboada's application.Upon reading Taboada's affidavit sworn to July 31, 2017 and filed with this Court on August 3, 2017, and upon reading the September 6, 2017 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Taboada is now eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.
Taboada's previous application seeking leave to resign from the New York bar was denied by order of this Court (152 A.D.3d 1043, 55 N.Y.S.3d 922 [2017] ).
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ORDERED that Alan Michael Taboada's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further
ORDERED that Alan Michael Taboada'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, effective immediately, Alan Michael Taboada 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 Taboada 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 Alan Michael Taboada shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.
PETERS, P.J., MCCARTHY, ROSE, AARONS and PRITZKER, JJ., concur.