Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M46396

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A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J.

ANITA R. FLORIO

HOWARD MILLER

ROBERT W. SCHMIDT

WILLIAM F. MASTRO, JJ.

1999-02632 FOR REINSTATEMENT In the Matter of Shahriar Kashanian, a disbarred attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 1994391)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the respondent, Shahriar Kashanian, for reinstatement as an attorney and counselor-at-law. By opinion and order of this court dated July 6, 1999, he was disbarred pursuant to Judiciary Law § 90 and his name was stricken from the roll of attorneys 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 May 1, 1985.

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 practice law, including but not limited to: 1) details of his compliance with this Court's order of disbarment; 2) clarification of the status of his admission to practice before the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, and whether he was disciplined by that Court following his disbarment by this Court; and 3) his plans for practicing law and for preventing the type of problems which arose with his practice in the past, in the event of reinstatement.

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

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court