Matter of Berman

233 N.Y.S.3d 224, 2025 NY Slip Op 03621

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: June 12, 2025
• Docket: PM-130-25
• Status: Published

Opinion

Matter of Berman (2025 NY Slip Op 03621)

Matter of Berman

2025 NY Slip Op 03621

Decided on June 12, 2025

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:June 12, 2025

PM-130-25

[*1]In the Matter of Barbara Petchenik Berman, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 2293942.)

Calendar Date:June 9, 2025
Before:Egan Jr., J.P., Aarons, Pritzker, Ceresia and Mackey, JJ.

Barbara Petchenik Berman, Boynton Beach, Florida, pro se.

Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany (Alison M. Coan of counsel), for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.

Per Curiam.

Barbara Petchenik Berman was admitted to practice by this Court in 1989 and lists a business address in Boynton Beach, Florida with the Office of Court Administration. Berman now seeks leave to resign from the New York bar for nondisciplinary reasons (see Rules for Atty Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [a]). The Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department (hereinafter AGC) advises that it does not oppose Berman's application.

Upon reading Berman's affidavit sworn to March 21, 2025 and filed March 26, 2025, and upon reading the June 3, 2025 correspondence in response by the Deputy Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Berman is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant her application and accept her resignation.

Egan Jr., J.P., Aarons, Pritzker, Ceresia and Mackey, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Barbara Petchenik Berman's application for permission to resign is granted and her nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

ORDERED that Barbara Petchenik Berman'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 Atty Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [b]); and it is further

ORDERED that Barbara Petchenik Berman 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 Berman 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 Barbara Petchenik Berman shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to her.