Matter of Nimmer

Matter of Nimmer 2013 NY Slip Op 08332 Decided on December 12, 2013 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: December 12, 2013

[*1]In the Matter of JOHN C. NIMMER, an Attorney. COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS, Petitioner; JOHN C. NIMMER, Respondent. (Attorney Registration No. 2995447)

Calendar Date: October 28, 2013
Before: Lahtinen, J.P., Stein, McCarthy and Egan Jr., JJ.


Monica A. Duffy, Committee on Professional
Standards, Albany (Michael K. Creaser of counsel), for petitioner.
John C. Nimmer, Omaha, Nebraska, respondent pro se.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER



Per Curiam.

Respondent was admitted to practice by this Court in 1999. He maintains an office for the practice of law in Nebraska, where he was admitted to the bar in 1993.

By order dated June 14, 2013, the Nebraska Supreme Court publicly reprimanded respondent for, among other things, violating his oath of office as an attorney and a disciplinary rule prohibiting a lawyer from making misleading statements about the lawyer's services (Matter of Nimmer, 286 Neb 107 [2013]).

Petitioner now moves for an order imposing discipline pursuant to this Court's rules (see 22 NYCRR 806.19). Respondent has filed papers in response, arguing only that any discipline in excess of a public reprimand would be unjust. Respondent has not previously been the subject of discipline in either Nebraska or this state.

Under the circumstances presented, we conclude that, in the interest of justice and consistent with the discipline in Nebraska, respondent should be censured (see generally Matter [*2]of Lawler, 40 AD3d 1205 [2007]).

Lahtinen, J.P., Stein, McCarthy and Egan Jr., JJ., concur.

ORDERED that petitioner's motion is granted; and it is further

ORDERED that respondent is hereby censured.