Matter of Greenberg

Matter of Greenberg 2017 NY Slip Op 04533 Decided on June 8, 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 8, 2017

[*1]In the Matter of EZRA SAUL GREENBERG, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 4665659)

Calendar Date: May 22, 2017
Before: Garry, J.P., Egan Jr., Lynch, Rose and Devine, JJ.

Ezra Saul Greenberg, Miami, Florida, 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

Ezra Saul Greenberg was admitted to practice by this Court in 2009 and lists a business address in Miami, Florida with the Office of Court Administration. Greenberg 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 Greenberg's application.

Upon reading the affidavit of Greenberg sworn to March 22, 2017 and filed March 27, 2017, and upon reading the May 12, 2017 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Greenberg is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.

Garry, J.P., Egan Jr., Lynch, Rose and Devine, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Ezra Saul Greenberg's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

ORDERED that Ezra Saul Greenberg'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, Ezra Saul Greenberg is commanded to desist and refrain from the practice of law in any form in the State of New York, either as principal or [*2]as agent, clerk or employee of another; and Greenberg 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 himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law in this State; and it is further

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