Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M73035

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A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J.

WILLIAM F. MASTRO

REINALDO E. RIVERA

ROBERT A. SPOLZINO

STEVEN W. FISHER, JJ.

1993-05155 In the Matter of Philip Irwin Aaron, a disbarred attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 1212687)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION FOR REINSTATEMENT

Motion by the respondent 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 December 18, 1963. By opinion and order of this court dated September 8, 1997, he was disbarred. By decision and order on motion dated November 21, 2005, the respondent's motion for reinstatement was denied. By decision and order on motion of this court dated March 29, 2006, his motion for reargument of his prior motion for reinstatement which was determined by this court's decision and order on motion dated November 21, 2005, was denied.

Upon the papers submitted in support of the motion and the papers submitted in relation 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) the respondent's compliance with the order of disbarment, particularly with respect to the numerous legal actions and proceedings in which the respondent appeared pro se and the proceedings in which he "handled" on behalf of Steph-Leigh Associates; and (2) the payments the respondent received from his former law firm, whether in the form of "severance payments," "income pass through," or "severance income," as reported in the respondent's income tax returns filed for the years 1997 through 2003.

PRUDENTI, P.J., MASTRO, RIVERA, SPOLZINO and FISHER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court