Matter of Love

Matter of Love 2017 NY Slip Op 07522 Decided on October 26, 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: October 26, 2017

[*1]In the Matter of IAN MOOREHEAD LOVE, an Attorney.

(Attorney Registration No. 5383641) Calendar Date: October 23, 2017
Before: Peters, P.J., McCarthy, Garry, Egan Jr. and Lynch, JJ.

Ian Moorehead Love, Denver, Colorado, 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

Ian Moorehead Love was admitted to practice by this Court in 2015 and lists a business address in Chicago, Illinois with the Office of Court Administration. Love 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 Love's application.

Upon reading Love's affidavit sworn to September 12, 2017 and filed September 15, 2017, and upon reading the October 18, 2017 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Love is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.

Peters, P.J., McCarthy, Garry, Egan Jr. and Lynch, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Ian Moorehead Love's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

ORDERED that Ian Moorehead Love'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 Ian Moorehead Love is commanded to desist and refrain from the [*2]practice of law in any form in the State of New York, either as principal or as agent, clerk or employee of another; and Love 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 Ian Moorehead Love shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.