Opinion
No. PM-119-22
06-30-2022
In the Matter of Joan Alice Lovell, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 2346229.)
Joan Alice Lovell, Sarasota, Florida, pro se. Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany, for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.
Calendar Date: June 27, 2022
Joan Alice Lovell, Sarasota, Florida, pro se.
Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany, for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.
Before: Garry, P.J., Clark, Aarons, Reynolds Fitzgerald and Fisher, JJ.
PER CURIAM
Joan Alice Lovell was admitted to practice by this Court in 1990 and lists a business address in Springfield, New Jersey with the Office of Court Administration. Lovell 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) has been heard in response to the application.
Upon reading Lovell's affidavit sworn to May 11, 2022 and filed May 17, 2022, and upon reading the June 21, 2022 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC and Lovell's email correspondence dated June 22, 2022, and having determined that Lovell is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant her application and accept her resignation.
Garry, P.J., Clark, Aarons, Reynolds Fitzgerald and Fisher, JJ., concur.
ORDERED that Joan Alice Lovell's application for permission to resign is granted and her nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further
ORDERED that Joan Alice Lovell'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 Joan Alice Lovell 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 Lovell 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 Joan Alice Lovell shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to her.