Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M96165

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A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J.

WILLIAM F. MASTRO

REINALDO E. RIVERA

STEVEN W. FISHER

MARK C. DILLON, JJ.

2008-10532 In the Matter of Edward A. Christensen, a disbarred attorney. Grievance Committee for the Tenth Judicial District, petitioner; Edward A. Christensen, respondent. (Attorney Registration No. 2265494)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

By opinion and order of this Court dated November 10, 2009, the Grievance Committee's motion to adjudicate the respondent in default on the ground that he failed to file an answer to the petition was granted, the charges were deemed established and the respondent was disbarred on default, effective immediately. 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 1, 1984.

ORDERED that on the Court's own motion, further service by publication is dispensed with in view of the documented inability of the Grievance Committee to effect service upon the respondent at either his last known business address or his last known personal residence, which led to an order of Presiding Justice Prudenti, dated April 8, 2009, authorizing service of the Notice of Motion for a Default Judgment by publication for two consecutive days, commencing April 20, 2009, in both the New York Law Journal and Newsday, as well as the publication of the opinion and order dated November 10, 2009, on the Court's official website and in the New York Law Journal on November 17, 2009.

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

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court