Opinion
October 25, 2007.
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 Rules of the Chief Administrator of the Courts (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., concur.
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. They have also failed to respond to the instant motion.
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 AD2d 743; Matter of Ryan, 238 AD2d 713; Matter of Farley, 205 AD2d 874).
In view of respondents' continued failure to comply with the attorney registration requirements of the Judiciary Law and the Rules of the Chief Administrator of the Courts, 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 , 14 AD3d 788).
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, for the period of suspension, respondents 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 respondents are forbidden to appear as attorneys or counselorsat-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 regulating the conduct of suspended attorneys ( see 22 NYCRR 806.9).
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