Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M40462

S/nal

A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J.

ANITA R. FLORIO

HOWARD MILLER

ROBERT W. SCHMIDT

WILLIAM F. MASTRO, JJ.

2006-02684 In the Matter of Judah J. Taub, admitted as Judah Joseph Taub, an attorney and counselor-at-law. Grievance Committee for the Tenth Judicial District, petitioner; Judah J. Taub, respondent. (Attorney Registration No. 2695880)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

By letter dated February 7, 2005, the respondent's counsel first apprised the court of the respondent's conviction on November 29, 2004, of offering a false instrument for filing in the second degree. By letter dated March 16, 2006, Grievance Counsel submitted to the court the corrected certificate of disposition along with copies of the plea minutes dated July 19, 2004, and sentencing minutes dated November 29, 2004. The respondent was admitted to the Bar at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department on August 23, 1995, under the name Judah Joseph Taub.

Upon the papers submitted to the court, it is

ORDERED that on the court's own motion, the respondent, Judah J. Taub, admitted as Judah Joseph Taub, is immediately suspended from the practice of law as a result of his conviction of a serious crime, and continuing until further order of this court, pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90(4)(f); and it is further,

ORDERED that the respondent, Judah J. Taub, admitted as Judah Joseph Taub, shall promptly comply with this court's rules governing the conduct of disbarred, suspended, and resigned attorneys (22 NYCRR 691.10); and it is further,

ORDERED that pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90, during the period of suspension and until further order of this court, the respondent, Judah J. Taub, admitted as Judah Joseph Taub, is commanded to desist and refrain from (1) practicing law in any form, either as principal or agent, clerk, or employee of another, (2) appearing as an attorney or counselor-at-law before any court, Judge, Justice, board, commission, or other public authority, (3) giving to another an opinion as to the law or its application or any advice in relation thereto, and (4) holding himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law; and it is further,

ORDERED that on the court's own motion, the Grievance Committee for the Tenth Judicial District is hereby authorized to institute and prosecute a disciplinary proceeding in this court, as petitioner, against the said Judah J. Taub, based on his conviction of a serious crime; and it is further,

ORDERED that Rita Adler, Chief Counsel to the Grievance Committee for the Tenth Judicial District, 150 Motor Parkway, Suite 102, Hauppauge, N.Y. 11788, is hereby appointed as attorney for the petitioner in such proceeding; and it is further,

ORDERED that the petitioner Grievance Committee shall serve upon the respondent and the Special Referee and file with this court a petition within 30 days after receipt of a copy of this decision and order on motion; and it is further,

ORDERED that the respondent shall serve an answer to the petition upon the petitioner and the Special Referee and file the original answer with this court within 20 days after service upon him of the petition; and it is further,

ORDERED that the issues raised by the petition and any answer thereto are referred to the Honorable Stanley Harwood, a retired Associate Justice of the Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, c/o Jaspan Schlesinger Hoffman, 300 Garden City Plaza, Garden City, N.Y. 11530, as Special Referee to expeditiously hear and report, together with his findings on the issues.

PRUDENTI, P.J., FLORIO, MILLER, SCHMIDT and MASTRO, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court