Matter of Brown

Matter of Brown 2019 NY Slip Op 03879 Decided on May 16, 2019 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: May 16, 2019

[*1] In the Matter of MICHAEL R. BROWN, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 2363604)

Calendar Date: May 6, 2019
Before: Lynch, J.P., Devine, Aarons, Rumsey and Pritzker, JJ.

Michael R. Brown, Dana Point, California, 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

Per Curiam.

Michael R. Brown was admitted to practice by this Court in 1981 and lists a business address in Irvine, California with the Office of Court Administration. Brown 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 Brown's application.

Upon reading Brown's affidavit sworn to April 8, 2019 and filed April 11, 2019, and upon reading the May 2, 2019 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Brown is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.

Lynch, J.P., Devine, Aarons, Rumsey and Pritzker, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Michael R. Brown's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

ORDERED that Michael R. Brown'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 Michael R. Brown 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 Brown 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 Michael R. Brown shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.