Matter of Brecker; Grievance Committee for 2nd& 11th
Motion No: 2001-01596
Slip Opinion No: 2006 NYSlipOp 60863(U)
Decided on January 19, 2006
Appellate Division, Second Department, Motion Decision
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.


Supreme Court of the State of New York

Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M34778

K/nal

A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J.

ANITA R. FLORIO

HOWARD MILLER

THOMAS A. ADAMS

REINALDO E. RIVERA, JJ.

2001-01596

In the Matter of Mark Lewis Brecker,

a suspended attorney.

(Attorney Registration No. 1407030)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION
FOR REINSTATEMENT

Motion by the respondent, Mark Lewis Brecker, for reinstatement as an attorney and counselor-at-law. The respondent was admitted to the Bar at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department on July 8, 1975. By opinion and order of this court dated September 22, 2003, the respondent was suspended from the practice of law for two years after a disciplinary hearing at which two charges of professional misconduct, which emanated from his behavior resulting in an adjudication of criminal contempt, were sustained.

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed in response thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion is held in abeyance and the matter is referred to the Committee on Character and Fitness to investigate and report on the respondent's current fitness to be an attorney, including but not limited to details of his involvement in a foreclosure action and a landlord/tenant dispute.

PRUDENTI, P.J., FLORIO, H. MILLER, ADAMS and RIVERA, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court