Matter of Copeland, 2024 NY Slip Op 05530 [232 AD3d 984]

November 7, 2024

Appellate Division, Third Department

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In the Matter of Edward J. Copeland, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 1741396.)

Edward J. Copeland, Chicago, Illinois, 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. Edward J. Copeland was admitted to practice by this Court in 1981 and lists a business address in Chicago, Illinois with the Office of Court Administration. Copeland 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 Copeland’s application.

Upon reading Copeland’s affidavit sworn to September 16, 2024, and filed September 19, 2024, and upon reading the October 29, 2024 correspondence in response by the Deputy Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Copeland is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.

Egan Jr., J.P., Clark, Aarons, Pritzker and McShan, JJ., concur. Ordered that Edward J. Copeland’s application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further ordered that Edward J. Copeland’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 Edward J. Copeland 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 Copeland 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 Edward J. Copeland shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him..