Opinion
July 11, 2008.
MOTION by petitioner to suspend respondents on the ground that they violated Judiciary Law § 468-a and 22 NYCRR 118.1 by failing to comply with attorney registration requirements.
Before: HURLBUTT, J.P., SMITH, CENTRA, PERADOTTO and GORSKI, JJ.
OPINION OF THE COURT
Petitioner moved to suspend respondents on the ground that they violated Judiciary Law § 468-a and 22 NYCRR 118.1 by failing to comply with attorney registration requirements. Petitioner alleged in support of the motion that respondents failed to respond to numerous written notices concerning their delinquency sent by the Office of Court Administration and by petitioner. This Court, by order entered January 17, 2008, directed respondents to show cause by the filing of a written response why an order should not be entered suspending them for their failure to comply with attorney registration requirements. Respondents failed to respond to the order to show cause.
The failure to comply with attorney registration requirements is a violation of Judiciary Law § 468-a and 22 NYCRR 118.1 and constitutes professional misconduct warranting the imposition of discipline ( see Matter of Rinaldi, 304 AD2d 271). Accordingly, we conclude that respondents, who are named on the attached list, should be immediately suspended until further order of this Court.
Name Year Admitted Attorney Registration # Yishaiya Abosch 1995 2671790 Soon Mo Ahn 1991 2380376 Susan W. Allport 1975 1235498 David P. Andross 1974 1483197 Randall S. Archibald 1975 1338524 Nasser Anthony Ashgriz 1997 2844538 Edward M. Barth 1979 2354728 Bruce C. Beringer 1974 1697317 Robert A. Bernstein 1984 1913300 Lawrence A. Beyer 1984 1941368 Dianne E. Boyle 1993 2518504 David A. Brady 1977 1602465 Richard T. Bruno 1982 1787647 J. Stephen Buchanan 1986 2057099 Ann L. Burrows 1978 1448943 Jackson W. Casey 1976 2146009 Robert Allen Cassalia 1977 1415066 Karen Anne Rockow Chalmers 1990 2309912 Aaron G. Chambers 1982 1822444 Stephen G. Cheikes 1975 1411149 Ru-Guei Ruby Chiang 1991 2375079 Ching-Ling Chu 1994 2563591 David J. Cichanowicz 1986 2053015 James C. Collins 1967 Never Registered Caren M. Cook 1991 2374569 Jon E. Cooper 1981 1712504 John B. Cosgrove 1957 1212737 J. David Covert 1981 1905959 Edwin Teal Cox, Jr. 1968 2569184 Mary E. Curtin 1973 2275782 Daniel M. Danhauser 1991 2424299 Name Year Admitted Attorney Registration # Wesley A. Daniels 1977 1410547 Karen A. Deeley 1996 2719557 Kenneth DeGasper 1957 Never Registered David J. Delamater 1999 2955201 David W. Doherty 1984 1935915 Daniel Sullivan Drury 1993 2508018 Michael E. Dunlavey 1978 2017929 Leslie Duval-Crowley 1979 1752104 Sheridan Dye 1985 1968239 Sylvia Edwards 1974 2155802 Stefan Epstein 1976 1439454 Ronald Leon Fancher 1966 1644509 Roseanne Faraci 1983 1874403 Christine Haight Farley 1995 2659498 Michael D. Freedman 1994 2592079 Elda Fuernkranz 1989 2229417 Stephen F. Furcinito 1991 2402196 Robert L. Furst 1979 1350404 Michael W. Gibson 1968 1536994 Robert K. Glatter 1979 1884840 Martha B. Grandinetti 1981 1793785 Ronald P. Graziano 1990 2331866 Maria Kenney Hadley 2000 3012150 Norman Jeremiah Haggerty 1967 2772101 Andrew M. Harkness 1968 1422278 Terry C. Havens 1991 2391142 Douglas R. Hawkins 1992 2482529 Theodore G. Hess 1979 1231265 Jay T. Jenkins 1984 1932912 Christopher L. Johnson 1994 2606234 Harold T. Judd 1989 2287266 Byoung Chan Kim 1989 2301455 Janie E. Kong 1995 2667400 Kenneth H. Koo 1983 2273530 Myron B. Kurtzman 1970 1755354 Maria Luisa A. Laneve 1985 1978592 Henry Alan Langer 1981 2679306 Richard L. LaVarnway 1996 2761674 Edward W. Lavery 1963 2215861 Seukjoon Lee 2000 3052370 Chechun Liu 1991 2421550 Frances Liu 1991 2375558 Diane E. Lockner 1981 1743764 Name Year Admitted Attorney Registration # James C. Lockwood 1974 1696772 Cathy M. Lojewski 1984 1932508 Phyllis P. Macsheain 1975 1303510 Molly Ann Mahany 1999 2955797 Kathleen A. Majewski 1981 1710581 William J. Marshall 1987 2148047 William A. Marvin 1974 1300326 Michael S.M. McAleer 1981 1708049 William F. McFarland 1980 1699404 Dianna Lee McGraw 1987 2103083 Daniel J. McGuire 1996 2737260 Dennis P. Monteith 1975 1378751 Eric D. Morris 1995 2649929 Carrie P. Morrison 1986 2030773 James F. Mulhern 1972 1761261 Martin S. Mullen 1977 1169838 Katharine Helen Muncaster 1999 2977130 Robert E. Murphy 1977 1619188 Lashmirani K. Natarajan 1996 2776904 Kimberly A. Neal 1992 2456838 Vicki A. Newman 1981 1708155 Hoang T. Nguyen 1993 2553493 Donald V. Nihoul 1985 2053999 John F. O'Connor 1974 1343433 George N. Papageorge 1995 2645927 Youn S. Park 1996 2780518 Arlynn A. Parker 1980 1783042 Christopher Patterson 1990 2305423 Raymond L. Payne 1983 1851815 Sandra F. Plezia 1987 2103836 Robert J. Potenza 1982 1828540 Annette Hartman Purper 1994 2583433 Suzanne J. Quinn 1997 2807220 Harold W. Rathbun, III 1998 2864130 Clyde W. Rea 1974 1614940 Mark A. Regan 1998 2880334 Laura S. Reiman 1988 2157030 Sheila M. Rembert 1992 2445534 Lewis H. Ripple 1998 2872497 Raymond M. Rizzi 1984 1916568 Melissa Robertson 1990 2325041 Carlos R. Santiago 1981 1731892 Jerome Saskowski 1989 2263135 Name Year Admitted Attorney Registration # Karl C. Schaffenburg 1989 2270247 Steven D. Searls 1989 2278489 Cheon-Seok Seo 2001 3972817 Joseph S. Sewell 1977 1358837 Richard P. Shafer 1979 1414325 Kathy Ann Spencer 1987 2212405 Charles S. Spinner, Jr. 1997 2828309 Lance J.M. Steinhart 1986 2066041 Peter A. Strong 1990 2307056 Michael P. Sullivan 1988 2198463 Diane M. Szkotak 1988 2157097 Kathleen R. Terry 1993 2537959 Christopher J. Thomas 1986 2103927 Douglas P. Thompson 1995 2645661 George D. Vanepps 1971 1013564 David P. VanKnapp 1975 1298017 Jeffrey S. Vogt 2000 3015542 Laura Wagner 1994 2604031 Emil J. Warchol 1971 1438936 Kathleen A. Welch 1992 2451474 Joseph M. Wentland 2000 3055142 Mark E. Whittingham 1997 2803906 Eric C. Williams 1966 1748185 Philip Mark Witzling 2001 3969227 Sandra K. Woodward (Sandra Kay Lamb) 1981 1737519 David Alan Wright 1997 2789295 Order of suspension entered.