Matter of Coutant

Opinion

Matter of Coutant

2026 NY Slip Op 04907

August 6, 2026

Appellate Division, Third Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This decision is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

In the Matter of Malcolm A. Coutant, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 1797984.)

Decided and Entered:August 6, 2026

PM-176-26

Calendar Date: August 3, 2026

Before: Reynolds Fitzgerald, J.P., Ceresia, Mcshan, Mackey And Ryba, JJ.

Malcom A. Coutant, Saranac Lake, 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.

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Per Curiam.

Malcom A. Coutant was admitted to practice by this Court in 1969 and lists a business address in Saranac Lake, New York with the Office of Court Administration. Coutant 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 Coutant's application.

Upon reading Coutant's affidavit sworn to June 23, 2026, and filed June 26, 2026, and upon reading the July 29, 2026 correspondence in response by the Deputy Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Coutant is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.

Reynolds Fitzgerald, J.P., Ceresia, McShan, Mackey and Ryba, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Malcom A. Coutant's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

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