Matter of Cotta

2018 NY Slip Op 511

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: January 25, 2018
• Status: Published

Opinion

Matter of Cotta (2018 NY Slip Op 00511)

Matter of Cotta

2018 NY Slip Op 00511

Decided on January 25, 2018

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: January 25, 2018

[*1]In the Matter of DANIEL DAVID COTTA, an Attorney.

(Attorney Registration No. 2954238) Calendar Date: January 16, 2018
Before: McCarthy, J.P., Lynch, Devine, Aarons and Rumsey, JJ.

Daniel David Cotta, Framingham, Massachusetts, 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

Daniel David Cotta was admitted to practice by this Court in 1999 and lists a business address in Alexandria, Virginia with the Office of Court Administration. Cotta 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) opposes the application by correspondence from its Chief Attorney.

As is noted by AGC, Cotta is presently not current in his New York attorney registration requirements, having failed to timely register for the biennial period beginning in 2017 (see Judiciary Law § 468-a; Rules of the Chief Admin of Cts [22 NYCRR] § 118.1). Inasmuch as Cotta is therefore subject to potential disciplinary action (see Judiciary Law § 468-a [5]; Rules of Professional Conduct [22 NYCRR 1200.0] rule 8.4 [d]; see also

Matter of Attorneys in Violation of Judiciary Law § 468-a, 113 AD3d 1020, 1021 [2014]), he is ineligible for nondisciplinary resignation and his application must be denied (see Matter of Cluff, 148 AD3d 1346, 1346 [2017]; Matter of Bomba, 146 AD3d 1226, 1226-1227 [2017]). Further, any future application by Cotta must be supported by proof of his full satisfaction of the requirements of Judiciary Law § 468-a and Rules of the Chief Administrator of the Courts (22 NYCRR) § 118.1 (see Matter of Frank, 146 AD3d 1228, 1228-1229 [2017]).

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

ORDERED that Daniel David Cotta's application for permission to resign is denied.