Matter of Schalz , 2021 NY Slip Op 06420 ( 2021 )

Matter of Schalz (2021 NY Slip Op 06420)

Matter of Schalz

2021 NY Slip Op 06420

Decided on November 18, 2021

Appellate Division, Third Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided and Entered:November 18, 2021

PM-157-21

[*1]In the Matter of Kimberly Ann Schalz, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 5873070.)

Calendar Date:November 15, 2021
Before:Garry, P.J., Lynch, Clark, Aarons and Reynolds Fitzgerald, JJ.

Kimberly Ann Schalz, Hills, Illinois, pro se.

Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany, for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.

Per Curiam.

Kimberly Ann Schalz was admitted to practice by this Court in 2021 and lists a business address in Cary, Illinois with the Office of Court Administration. Schalz 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 Schalz's application.

Upon reading Schalz's affidavit sworn to September 13, 2021 and filed September 22, 2021, and upon reading the November 5, 2021 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Schalz is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant her application and accept her resignation.

Garry, P.J., Lynch, Clark, Aarons and Reynolds Fitzgerald, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Kimberly Ann Schalz's application for permission to resign is granted and her nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

ORDERED that Kimberly Ann Schalz'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 Kimberly Ann Schalz 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 Schalz 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 Kimberly Ann Schalz shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to her.