Opinion
Decided and Entered: June 15, 2000
Petitioner Committee on Professional Standards moves to suspend respondent attorneys on the ground they have failed to file a registration statement and pay the required attorney registration fee in accordance with § 468-a of the Judiciary Law and Part 118 of the Rules of the Chief Administrator.
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.
Subdivision 5 of Judiciary Law § 468-a 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, 674 N.Y.S.2d 156; 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 Jud., 262 A.D.2d 702).
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 the 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 advise 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.
ATTORNEYS YEAR ADMITTED
Akinla, Oladele O. 1985 Askin, Marilyn 1983 Barot, Peter D. 1995 Beatty, Kim M. 1987 Beaven, Alan A. 1985 Behrndt, William C. III 1993 Bergman, Stephanie P. 1993 Bonanno, Joseph G. 1985 Bonnett, Erica R. 1995 Chan, Beartland T. 1993 Chang, Kyung Hyun 1995 Channing, David I. 1995 Chua, Charles D. 1995 Cloer, Stewart L. 1991 Crawford, Mark J. 1995 Cristallo, Steven 1993 Danek, David John 1993 Davidson, Kara A. 1991 Davis, Russell O. 1995 Delaney, James C. 1995 Disse, Werner 1989 Donovan, Michael D. 1985 Dy, Andre Claudio 1995 Ejimakor, Aloysius O. 1995 Frankel, Deborah C. 1993 Friedenthal, Alan H. 1995 Giannone, Richard J. 1991 Goldberg, Seth R. 1995 Goldman, Kenneth M. 1987 Gonzalez, Jimmy A. 1995 Greenbaum, Daniel P. 1993 Grinstein, Keith D. 1987 Hadyniak, Lydnn Q. 1989 Hailu, Zecharias 1995 Hall, Gary Patrick 1991 Hediger, Daniel D. 1995 Holtzman, Arlene M. 1993 Huston, Nita D. 1987 Jallah, David A. 1993 Janufka, Carol Mary 1995 Johansen, Gary Lee 1987 Johnson, Norton S. 1983 Johnston, Gary W. 1995 Kachikwu, Udokanma M. 1995 Kahn, Caroline 1987 Keimach, Gary 1995 Kennedy, Paul F. 1991 Kent, Kathryn A. 1995 Kernus, Susan Aker 1985 Kim, Kap You 1995 King, Aaron Y. 1995 King, Sean P. 1993 Klippstein, Nora Burke 1989 Kohm, Lynne M. 1989 Ladanaj, Stephen S. 1993 Lee, Chien Te 1995 Lee, Hong Bum 1995 Lee, Sungwook 1995 Lekashman, John Q. 1991 Liemer, Susan P. 1987 Lindsey, Catherine Ann 1995 Lisi, Gregory S. 1993 Littman, Jeremy R. 1987 Lloyd, Joanne D. 1995 Machado, Paul J. 1983 Malone, Thomas B. 1995 Manriquez, Mario Jr. 1985 McCloskey, Karen R. 1991 Mercier, William C. 1983 Meyer, Edward D. 1993 Miller, S. Debra 1985 Mocarski, Thadeus J. 1989 Nacca, Richard 1995 Pandit, Sanatkumar V. 1985 Patel, Duriya 1991 Payne, Daniel G. 1985 Pelino, Jacquelyn S. 1995 Perkins, Djuna E. 1993 Philip, Karen M. 1991 Phillips, Judith J. 1993 Porway, Beverly R. 1989 Potter, Maria M. 1989 Ramaizal, Frank A. 1995 Reese, Judith R. 1989 Riecker, Andreas O. 1995 Rigo, George 1993 Rodriguez-Morick, Jeanette 1995 Rotella, Jeffrey T. 1995 Salce, Valerio 1995 Sanchez, Deborah A. 1995 Santini, Betsy M. 1993 Schleider, Michelle Lynn 1995 Schreiber, Cheryl S. 1990 Schubert, Paul R. 1987 Shalov, Adam K. 1989 Shinkman, Florita S. 1983 Shtipelman, Nonna B. 1995 Smith, Erik Antonio 1995 Smith, Marshall A. 1995 Smith, Peter E. 1991 Sondak, Joel 1985 Studwell, Laura V. 1987 Syz, John D. 1991 Thomas, Tracy Rene 1995 Thompson, Myron A. IV 1995 Togni, Kathy M. 1995 Tong, Peter O. 1993 Treadwell, David O. Jr. 1993 Tung, Nicole J. 1995 Vagianos, Paul A. 1989 Velarde, Albert J. 1989 Voell, Gregory J. 1989 Vonzamft, Michael L. 1983 Weiner, Yale J. 1995 Wittstein, James R. 1995 Yablon, Gordon A. 1987 Yoon, Hwa Jin 1993
[As amended by unpublished orders entered June 29, July 20, July 31, 2000.]