Opinion
Motion No. 2024-03609 Case No. 2022-05820
11-07-2024
In the Matter of Matthew A. Melville (admitted as Matthew Alexander Melville), a suspended attorney: Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department, Respondent, Matthew A. Melville (OCA Atty. Reg. No. 4840575), Petitioner.
Unpublished Opinion
MOTION DECISION
Present - Hon. Cynthia S. Kern, Barbara R. Kapnick Saliann Scarpulla Bahaati E. Pitt-Burke John R. Higgitt, Justice Presiding, Justices.
An order of this Court, having been entered on January 4, 2024 (Motion No. 2023-04377), suspending petitioner (who was admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor-at-law in the State of New York at a Term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court for the First Judicial Department on July 21, 2010), from the practice of law for a period of six months, effective February 5, 2024, And petitioner, by his attorney Sarah D. McShea, Esq., having moved this Court on August 12, 2024, for an order pursuant to 22 NYCRR 1240.16 reinstating him as an attorney and counselor-at-law in the State of New York, And the Attorney Grievance Committee, by Jorge Dopico, its Chief Attorney (Remi E. Shea, Esq., of counsel), having submitted an affirmation, dated August 5, 2024, stating, inter alia, that it does not oppose petitioner's reinstatement, Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due deliberation having been had thereon, it is unanimously,
Ordered that the motion is granted and petitioner Matthew A. Melville, admitted as Matthew Alexander Melville, is reinstated as an attorney and counselor-at-law in the State of New York, effective the date hereof.