Opinion
3008 Disciplinary Docket 3 140 DB 2023
10-20-2023
OFFICE OF DISCIPLINARY COUNSEL, Petitioner v. CHRISTOPHER JOHN MARTINI, Respondent
Attorney Registration No. 321416 (Elk County)
ORDER
PER CURIAM
AND NOW, this 20th day of October, 2023, upon consideration of the Office of Disciplinary Counsel's Petition for Emergency Temporary Suspension Order and the Notice of No-Contest to Temporary Suspension, Christopher John Martini is placed on temporary suspension until further definitive action by this Court. See Pa.R.D.E. 208(f)(2). It is further ordered that:
(1) Respondent shall comply with the provisions of Pa.R.D.E. 217;
(2) The President Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Elk and Cameron Counties, the Court of Common Pleas of McKean County, and the Court of Common Pleas of Jefferson County shall enter such orders as may be necessary to protect the rights of Respondent's clients or fiduciary entities with which Respondent is involved, see Pa.R.D.E. 217(g);
(3) Respondent shall prepare and deliver a complete list of the names and addresses of all clients and other entities he is currently representing in which
he is a fiduciary, showing the dates, amounts and circumstances of the entrustment and current balance thereof, as well as the banks and account numbers in which such funds are currently maintained, and serve such list upon the Office of Disciplinary Counsel, Frick Building, Suite 1300, 437 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15219; and
(4) All financial institutions in which Respondent holds fiduciary funds shall freeze such accounts pending further action by a court of appropriate jurisdiction.
Respondent's rights to petition for dissolution or amendment of this order and to request accelerated disposition of charges underlying this order pursuant to Pa.R.D.E. 208(f)(6) are specifically preserved. This Order constitutes an imposition of public discipline. See Pa.R.D.E. 402(c)(3) (providing an exception to the confidentiality requirement of Rule 402 when "an order of temporary suspension from the practice of law is entered by the Court pursuant to Enforcement Rule 208(f)").