Opinion
10-26-2017
In the Matter of KATIE JOY DUKE, an Attorney.
Katie Joy Duke, Seattle, Washington, 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. 4493169) Before: Peters, P.J., McCarthy, Devine, Rumsey and Pritzker, JJ.
Katie Joy Duke, Seattle, Washington, 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
Katie Joy Duke was admitted to practice by this Court in 2007 and lists a business address in Hayward, California with the Office of Court Administration. Duke 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 Duke's application.
Upon reading Duke's affidavit sworn to September 27, 2017 and filed with this Court on October 2, 2017, and upon reading the October 18, 2017 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Duke is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant her application and accept her resignation.
Peters, P.J., McCarthy, Devine, Rumsey and Pritzker, JJ., concur.
ORDERED that Katie Joy Duke's application for permission to resign is granted and her nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further
ORDERED that Katie Joy Duke'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 Katie Joy Duke 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 Duke 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 Katie Joy Duke shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to her.