Matter of Almond , 151 A.D.3d 1167 ( 2017 )

Matter of Almond (2017 NY Slip Op 04351)

Matter of Almond

2017 NY Slip Op 04351

Decided on June 1, 2017

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: June 1, 2017

[*1]In the Matter of MARCUS PIERCE ALMOND, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 5168588)

Calendar Date: May 22, 2017
Before: Garry, J.P., Lynch, Devine, Mulvey and Aarons, JJ.

Marcus Pierce Almond, Hickory, North Carolina, pro se.

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

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

Marcus Pierce Almond was admitted to practice by this Court in 2013 and lists a business address in Hickory, North Carolina with the Office of Court Administration. Almond now seeks leave to resign from the New York bar for nondisciplinary reasons (see Uniform 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 Almond's application.

Upon reading the affidavit of Almond sworn to April 5, 2017 and filed April 10, 2017, and upon reading the May 12, 2017 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Almond is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.

Garry, J.P., Lynch, Devine, Mulvey and Aarons, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Marcus Pierce Almond's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

ORDERED that Marcus Pierce Almond'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 Uniform Rules for Attorney Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [b]); and it is further

ORDERED that, effective immediately, Marcus Pierce Almond 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 Almond is hereby forbidden to appear as an attorney [*2]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 himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law in this State; and it is further

ORDERED that Marcus Pierce Almond shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.