Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M110480

E/ct

A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J.

WILLIAM F. MASTRO

REINALDO E. RIVERA

PETER B. SKELOS

STEVEN W. FISHER, JJ.

2007-09760 In the Matter of Warren Scott Goodman, an attorney and counselor-at-law. Grievance Committee for the Ninth Judicial District, petitioner; Warren Scott Goodman, respondent. (Attorney Registration No. 2361566)

DECISION & ORDER ON MOTION

Motion by the respondent for clarification and/or modification of an opinion and order of this Court dated June 8, 2010, imposing discipline upon him. The respondent was admitted to the Bar at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the First Judicial Department on August 16, 1990. By decision and order on motion of this Court dated January 24, 2008, the respondent was suspended pursuant to 22 NYCRR 691.4 (l)(1), (i) and (iii) pending further order of the Court, the Grievance Committee for the Ninth Judicial District was authorized to institute and prosecute a disciplinary proceeding against the respondent based on a petition dated October 17, 2007, the respondent was directed to file an answer to the petition, and the issues were referred to the Honorable Lewis L. Douglass, as Special Referee to hear and report. By decision and order on motion of this Court dated March 4, 2009, the Grievance Committee was authorized to supplement the original petition with additional charges set forth in a supplemental petition dated December 18, 2008, the respondent was directed to serve an answer to the supplemental petition, and the issues raised were referred to Special Referee Douglass to hear and report, along with the charges previously referred to him. By opinion and order of this Court dated June 8, 2010, the respondent was suspended from the practice of law for a period of three years based on 13 charges of professional misconduct.

Upon the papers submitted in support of the motion and the papers submitted in relation thereto, it is

ORDERED that the motion is granted to the extent that the respondent is credited with one year of the period of time served under his interim suspension pursuant to 22 NYCRR 691.4(l), and, the opinion and order of this Court dated June 8, 2010, is amended by inserting in the second decretal paragraph thereof following the words "practice of law of three years," the words "commencing immediately, with credit for one year of the time served under the interim suspension imposed by the decision and order on motion dated January 24, 2008," and the motion is otherwise denied.

PRUDENTI, P.J., MASTRO, RIVERA, SKELOS and FISHER, J.J., concur.

ENTER:

Matthew G. Kiernan

Clerk of the Court