Matter of Lay-Mumin

2021 NY Slip Op 00481, 136 N.Y.S.3d 816, 190 A.D.3d 1256

Opinion

Matter of Lay-Mumin (2021 NY Slip Op 00481)

Matter of Lay-Mumin

2021 NY Slip Op 00481

Decided on January 28, 2021

Appellate Division, Third Department

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

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Decided and Entered: January 28, 2021

PM-09-21

[*1]In the Matter of Christy Lea Lay-Mumin, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 4859690.)

Calendar Date: January 25, 2021
Before: Egan Jr., J.P., Lynch, Clark, Aarons and Reynolds Fitzgerald, JJ.

Christy Lea Lay-Mumin, Louisville, Kentucky, pro se.

Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany, for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.

Per Curiam.

Christy Lea Lay-Mumin was admitted to practice by this Court in 2010 and lists a business address in Louisville, Kentucky with the Office of Court Administration. Lay-Mumin 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, Lay-Mumin is presently delinquent in her New York attorney registration requirements, having failed to register for the 2020-2021 biennial period (see Judiciary Law § 468-a; Rules of the Chief Admin of Cts [22 NYCRR] § 118.1). Inasmuch as Lay-Mumin 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]), she is ineligible for nondisciplinary resignation and her 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 Lay-Mumin must be supported by proof of her 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]).

Egan Jr., J.P., Lynch, Clark, Aarons and Reynolds Fitzgerald, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Christy Lea Lay-Mumin's application for permission to resign is denied.