Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M34771

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A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J.

ANITA R. FLORIO

HOWARD MILLER

ROBERT W. SCHMIDT

THOMAS A. ADAMS, JJ.

1994-02019 In the Matter of Edward L. Howlette, Sr., a disbarred attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 108846)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION FOR REINSTATEMENT

Motion by the respondent, Edward L. Howlette, Sr., 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 Second Judicial Department on September 7, 1977, under the name Edward Lee Howlette. By opinion and order of this court dated May 31, 1994, he was disbarred upon his resignation from the practice of law. By decision and order of this court dated March 7, 2002, his first application for reinstatement to the Bar of the State of New York was denied on the ground that he did not demonstrate the requisite fitness and character to practice law.

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.

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

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court