Matter of Adams

Matter of Adams 2019 NY Slip Op 06148 Decided on August 15, 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: August 15, 2019

[*1] In the Matter of JOSEPH T. ADAMS, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 1963735)

Calendar Date: August 12, 2019
Before: Garry, P.J., Egan Jr., Lynch, Devine and Pritzker, JJ.

Joseph T. Adams, Vancouver, Washington, 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.

Joseph T. Adams was admitted to practice by this Court in 1985 and lists a business address in Vancouver, Washington with the Office of Court Administration. Adams has applied to this Court, by affidavit sworn to June 3, 2019, for 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) opposes the application on the basis that Adams omitted three material responses in his submission and, therefore, his application to resign was not in the proper form prescribed by Rules for Attorney Disciplinary Matters (22 NYCRR) § 1240.22 (a) (1) (see Rules for Attorney Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] part 1240, appendix E).

In reply to AGC's opposition, however, Adams has submitted a supplemental affidavit, sworn to August 6, 2019, in which he corrects the irregularities in his prior submission. Accordingly, with AGC voicing no other substantive objection to his application, and having determined that Adams is now eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant the application and accept his resignation (see Matter of Lavielle, 173 AD3d 1600, 1601 [2019]).

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

ORDERED that Joseph T. Adams' application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

ORDERED that Joseph T. Adams' 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 Joseph T. Adams 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 Adams is hereby forbidden to appear as an attorney or counselor-at-law before any [*2]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 Joseph T. Adams shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.