Matter of Pepper

2025 NY Slip Op 06011

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Matter of Pepper (2025 NY Slip Op 06011)

Matter of Pepper

2025 NY Slip Op 06011

Decided on October 30, 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:October 30, 2025

PM-243-25

[*1]In the Matter of Frederick Witlin Pepper, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 2150878.)

Calendar Date:October 27, 2025
Before:Clark, J.P., Aarons, Pritzker, Reynolds Fitzgerald and Fisher, JJ.

Frederick Witlin Pepper, Palo Alto, California, 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.

Frederick Witlin Pepper was admitted to practice by this Court in 1987 and lists a business address in Palo Alto, California with the Office of Court Administration. Pepper 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 Pepper's application.

Upon reading Pepper's affidavit sworn to September 2, 2025 and filed September 5, 2025, and upon reading the October 24, 2025 correspondence in response by the Deputy Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Pepper is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.

Clark, J.P., Aarons, Pritzker, Reynolds Fitzgerald and Fisher, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Frederick Witlin Pepper's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

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