Matter of Deeds

Matter of Deeds 2020 NY Slip Op 06440 Decided on November 12, 2020 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: November 12, 2020
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[*1]In the Matter of Michael Walker Deeds, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 4301982.)

Calendar Date: November 9, 2020
Before: Clark, J.P., Devine, Aarons, Pritzker and Reynolds Fitzgerald, JJ.

Michael Walker Deeds, Cedar Hill, Texas, pro se.

Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany, for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.

Per Curiam.

Michael Walker Deeds was admitted to practice by this Court in 2005 and lists a business address in Cedar Hill, Texas with the Office of Court Administration. Deeds 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 defers to this Court's discretion on Deeds' application.

Upon reading Deeds' affidavit sworn to June 9, 2020 and filed June 16, 2020, and upon reading the November 9, 2020 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Deeds is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.

Clark, J.P., Devine, Aarons, Pritzker and Reynolds Fitzgerald, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Michael Walker Deeds' application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

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