Matter of Hilbers

2025 NY Slip Op 04835

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: August 28, 2025
• Docket: PM-190-25
• Status: Published

Opinion

Matter of Hilbers (2025 NY Slip Op 04835)

Matter of Hilbers

2025 NY Slip Op 04835

Decided on August 28, 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:August 28, 2025

PM-190-25

[*1]In the Matter of Brian Robert Hilbers, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 4175188.)

Calendar Date:August 25, 2025
Before:Aarons, J.P., Lynch, Ceresia, Fisher and Powers, JJ.

Brian Robert Hilbers, Ontario, Canada, 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.

Brian Robert Hilbers was admitted to practice by this Court in 2003 and lists a business address in Ontario, Canada with the Office of Court Administration. Hilbers 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 Hilbers' application.

Upon reading Hilbers' affidavit sworn to June 23, 2025 and filed July 1, 2025, and upon reading the August 21, 2025 correspondence in response by the Deputy Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Hilbers is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.

Aarons, J.P., Lynch, Ceresia, Fisher and Powers, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Brian Robert Hilbers' application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

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