Opinion
No. PM-32-23
02-16-2023
In the Matter of Ilana Jacobs Shapiro, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 5532502.)
Ilana Jacobs Shapiro, Walnut Creek, California, 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:February 6, 2023
Ilana Jacobs Shapiro, Walnut Creek, California, pro se.
Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany, for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.
Before: Egan Jr., J.P., Clark, Pritzker, Ceresia and McShan, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
Ilana Jacobs Shapiro was admitted to practice by this Court in 2017 and lists a business address in Fairfield, California with the Office of Court Administration. Shapiro 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 Shapiro's application.
Upon reading Shapiro's affidavit sworn to January 11, 2023 and filed January 18, 2023, and upon reading the January 26, 2023 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Shapiro is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant her application and accept her resignation.
Egan Jr., J.P., Clark, Pritzker, Ceresia and McShan, JJ., concur.
ORDERED that Ilana Jacobs Shapiro's application for permission to resign is granted and her nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further
ORDERED that Ilana Jacobs Shapiro'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 Ilana Jacobs Shapiro 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 Shapiro 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 Ilana Jacobs Shapiro shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to her.