Matter of Dugan

Matter of Dugan 2018 NY Slip Op 01982 Decided on March 22, 2018 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: March 22, 2018

[*1]In the Matter of SARAH KATHRYN DUGAN, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 5130638)

Calendar Date: March 19, 2018
Before: Garry, P.J., Egan Jr., Clark, Mulvey and Pritzker, JJ.

Sarah Kathryn Dugan, Tallahassee, 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

Sarah Kathryn Dugan was admitted to practice by this Court in 2013 and lists a business address in Tallahassee, Florida with the Office of Court Administration. Dugan 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 Dugan's application by correspondence dated March 14, 2018.

Upon reading Dugan's affidavit sworn to February 14, 2018 and filed February 20, 2018, and upon reading the March 14, 2018 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Dugan is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant her application and accept her resignation.

Garry, P.J., Egan Jr., Clark, Mulvey and Pritzker, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Sarah Kathryn Dugan's application for permission to resign is granted and her nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

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