Opinion
Decided and Entered: July 2, 2003.
Petitioner moves to suspend respondent attorneys on the ground that they have failed to file a registration statement and pay the required attorney registration fee in accordance with Judiciary Law § 468-a and part 118 of the Rules of the Chief Administrator (see 22 NYCRR part 118).
Mark S. Ochs, Committee on Professional Standards, Albany, for petitioner.
Before: Cardona, P.J., Mercure, Crew III, Peters and Spain, JJ.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
The moving papers indicate that despite written notices sent to them by the Office of Court Administration, and a notice sent by petitioner, respondents have failed to register and pay the required fee.
Judiciary Law § 468-a (5) provides that noncompliance with the statute and rules regarding attorney registration "shall constitute conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice and shall be referred to the appropriate appellate division * * * for disciplinary action." This Court has previously held that failure to comply with the registration requirements is professional misconduct warranting discipline (see e.g. Matter of Arms, 251 A.D.2d 743; Matter of Ryan, 238 A.D.2d 713; Matter of Farley, 205 A.D.2d 874).
In view of respondents' continued failure to comply with the attorney registration requirements of the Judiciary Law and Rules of the Chief Administrator, petitioner's motion is granted and the respondents listed on the schedule attached hereto are suspended, effective 30 days from the date of this order, until further order of this Court (see Matter of Attorneys in Violation of Judiciary Law § 468-a , 291 A.D.2d 631).
Cardona, P.J., Mercure, Crew III, Peters and Spain, JJ., concur.
ORDERED that petitioner's motion is granted; and it is further
ORDERED that the respondents listed on the schedule attached hereto are suspended, effective 30 days from the date of this order, until further order of this Court; and it is further
ORDERED that respondents, for the period of suspension, are commanded to desist and refrain from the practice of law in any form either as principal or as agent, clerk or employee of another, and are 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 any opinion as to the law or its application or any advice in relation thereto; and it is further
ORDERED that respondents shall comply with the provisions of this Court's rules ( 22 NYCRR 806.9) regulating the conduct of suspended attorneys.
Last Name First Name Middle Name Year admitted
BAGLEY MARGARET RUTH 1996
BANKER JOHN ALEXANDER 1983
BURKE BRIAN WILLIAM 1996
BYRD RALPH T. 1980
CARPENTER ROBERT EDMUND 1975
CLOSE MICHAEL FRANCIS 1978
COHEN JEFFREY ALAN 1982
DOLING STUART PHILIP 1963
DOOLEY KATHLEEN A. 1986
GROSS DEBORAH 1967
HALLENBECK AMY LOUISE 1989
HARTER JOHN LOWELL 1982
JUBA PAULA CATHERINE 1983
LAMARCHE JEFFREY DAVID 1996
LANGLITZ MARK J. 1986
LARSON BRADLEY PAUL 1987
MALYSZEK CYNTHIA S. 1984
MARVENTANO DAVID VINCENT 1990
PEARL DAVID 1991
POLLACK JOSEPH 1965
RINGWOOD JOSEPH FRANCIS 1990
ROTMAN SCOTT RANDALL 1996
SCHONENBERG FREDERICK G. 1970
TUCKER MARY CATHERINE 1996
YANUCK CAROLYN CANE 1987