Matter of Couce
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Opinion
| Matter of Couce |
| 2025 NY Slip Op 01149 |
| Decided on February 27, 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:February 27, 2025
PM-55-25
Calendar Date:February 24, 2025
Before:Clark, J.P., Pritzker, Lynch, Reynolds Fitzgerald and Powers, JJ.
Jonathan Peter Couce, Newton, New Jersey, 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.
Jonathan Peter Couce was admitted to practice by this Court in 2022 and lists a business address in Baltimore, Maryland with the Office of Court Administration. Couce 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 Couce's application.
Upon reading Couce's affidavit sworn to December 20, 2024 and filed December 26, 2024, and upon reading the February 19, 2025 correspondence in response by the Deputy Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Couce is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.
Clark, J.P., Pritzker, Lynch, Reynolds Fitzgerald and Powers, JJ., concur.
ORDERED that Jonathan Peter Couce's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further
ORDERED that Jonathan Peter Couce'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 Jonathan Peter Couce 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 Couce 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 Jonathan Peter Couce shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.
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