| Matter of Martin |
| 2025 NY Slip Op 01150 [235 AD3d 1231] |
| February 27, 2025 |
| Appellate Division, Third Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| In the Matter of Steven Keith Martin, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 2701290.) |
Steven Keith Martin, Topsfield, Massachusetts, pro se.
Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany (Alison M. Coan of counsel), for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.
Per Curiam. Steven Keith Martin was admitted to practice by this Court in 1995 and lists a business address in Topsfield, Massachusetts with the Office of Court Administration. Martin now seeks leave to resign from the New York bar for nondisciplinary reasons (see Rules for Atty Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [a]). The Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department (hereinafter AGC) advises that it does not oppose Martin's application.
Upon reading Martin's affidavit sworn to January 16, 2025, and filed January 27, 2025, and upon reading the February 20, 2025 correspondence in response by the Deputy Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Martin is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.
Clark, J.P., Pritzker, Lynch, Reynolds Fitzgerald and Powers, JJ., concur. Ordered that Steven Keith Martin's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further ordered that Steven Keith Martin's name is hereby stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law of the State of New York, effective immediately, and until further order of this Court (see generally Rules for Atty Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [b]); and it is further ordered that Steven Keith Martin is commanded to desist and refrain from the practice of law in any form in the State of New York, either as principal or as agent, clerk or employee of another; and Martin is hereby forbidden to appear as an attorney or counselor-at-law before any court, judge, justice, board, commission or other public authority, or to give to another an opinion as to the law or its application, or any advice in relation thereto, or to hold himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law in this state; and it is further ordered that Steven Keith Martin shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.