Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M103072

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A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J.

WILLIAM F. MASTRO

REINALDO E. RIVERA

PETER B. SKELOS

HOWARD MILLER, JJ.

2009-11782 In the Matter of Michael N. Durante, an attorney and counselor-at-law. Grievance Committee for the Second, Eleventh, and Thirteen Judicial Districts, petitioner; Michael N. Durante, respondent. (Attorney Registration No. 2171189)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

By decision and order on motion dated April 27, 2010, this Court suspended the respondent pursuant to 22 NYCRR 691.4(l)(1)(ii) and (iii), authorized the Grievance Committee to institute and prosecute a disciplinary proceeding against the respondent and referred the issues raised to the Honorable James Gowan as Special Referee to hear and report. The respondent was admitted to the Bar at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department on February 3, 1988.

Now, upon the Court's own motion, it is

ORDERED that the Honorable James Gowan is relieved as Special Referee; and it is further,

ORDERED that the issues raised by the petition and any answer thereto are reassigned to the Honorable Herbert Altman, a retired Acting Supreme Court Justice, New York County, 333 E. 23rd Street-Apt 4D, New York, N.Y. 10010, as Special Referee to hear and report, together with his findings on the issues and to submit a report within 60 days after the conclusion of the hearing or the submission of post-hearing memoranda.

PRUDENTI, P.J., MASTRO, RIVERA, SKELOS and MILLER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

James Edward Pelzer

Clerk of the Court