

Matter of Berger (2018 NY Slip Op 05729)





Matter of Berger


2018 NY Slip Op 05729


Decided on August 9, 2018


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 9, 2018

[*1]In the Matter of MORIAH HOWAT BERGER, Also Known as MORIAH HOWAT BERGER ALLEN, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 4652046)

Calendar Date: August 6, 2018

Before: Lynch, J.P., Clark, Mulvey, Aarons and Rumsey, JJ.


Moriah Howat Berger, Richmond, Virginia, pro se.
Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany, for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER 
Per Curiam.
Moriah Howat Berger was admitted to practice by this Court in 2009 and lists a business address in Richmond, Virginia with the Office of Court Administration. Berger 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) advises that it does not oppose Berger's application.
Upon reading Berger's affidavit sworn to July 5, 2018 and filed July 9, 2018, and upon reading the July 31, 2018 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Berger is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant her application and accept her resignation.
Lynch, J.P., Clark, Mulvey, Aarons and Rumsey, JJ., concur.
ORDERED that Moriah Howat Berger's application for permission to resign is granted and her nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further
ORDERED that Moriah Howat Berger'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 Attorney Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [b]); and it is further
ORDERED that Moriah Howat Berger 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 Berger 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 [*2]an opinion as to the law or its application, or any advice in relation thereto, or to hold herself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law in this State; and it is further
ORDERED that Moriah Howat Berger shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to her.


