Matter of Paolo.; Grievance Committee for Second, Eleventh
Motion No: 2011-00572
Slip Opinion No: 2011 NY Slip Op 67507(U)
Decided on March 21, 2011
Appellate Division, Second Department, Motion Decision
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.


Supreme Court of the State of New York

Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department

M117270

E/ct

A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J.

WILLIAM F. MASTRO

REINALDO E. RIVERA

PETER B. SKELOS

CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, JJ.

2011-00572

In the Matter of Kathleen Paolo,

admitted as Kathleen Marcel Paolo,

a disbarred attorney.

DECISION & ORDER ON FOR
REINSTATEMENT

Motion by Kathleen Paolo 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 March 15, 1978, under the name Kathleen Marcel Paolo. By order of this Court dated February 17, 1987, the respondent was disbarred based on her conviction of grand larceny in the second degree, in violation of former Penal Law § 155.35, a class D felony, and conspiracy in the fifth degree, in violation of Penal Law § 105.05, a class A misdemeanor, and her name was stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselor-at-law. The respondent's felony conviction was subsequently set aside by the New York State Court of Appeals (see People v Paolo, 73 NY2d 596).

Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed 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 be an attorney.

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

ENTER:

Matthew G. Kiernan

Clerk of the Court