Matter of Nakamura

2024 NY Slip Op 04861

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: October 3, 2024
• Docket: PM-199-24
• Status: Published

Opinion

Matter of Nakamura (2024 NY Slip Op 04861)

Matter of Nakamura

2024 NY Slip Op 04861

Decided on October 3, 2024

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:October 3, 2024

PM-199-24

[*1]In the Matter of Hitomi Nakamura, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 3024288.)

Calendar Date:September 23, 2024
Before:Aarons, J.P., Lynch, Ceresia, Fisher and Powers, JJ.

Hitomi Nakamura, Hampshire, United Kingdom, 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.

Hitomi Nakamura was admitted to practice by this Court in 2000 and lists a business address in London, United Kingdom with the Office of Court Administration. Nakamura 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 Nakamura's application.

Upon reading Nakamura's affidavit sworn to July 18, 2024 and filed August 26, 2024, and upon reading the September 19, 2024 correspondence in response by the Deputy Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Nakamura is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant their application and accept their resignation.

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

ORDERED that Hitomi Nakamura's application for permission to resign is granted and their nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

ORDERED that Hitomi Nakamura'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 Hitomi Nakamura 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 Nakamura 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 themself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law in this State; and it is further

ORDERED that Hitomi Nakamura shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to them.