| Matter of Keam |
| 2025 NY Slip Op 04514 [240 AD3d 1149] |
| July 31, 2025 |
| Appellate Division, Third Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| In the Matter of Asher Jeonggyun Keam, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 5418868.) |
Asher Jeonggyun Keam, Arlington, Virginia, 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.
Attorney and Client
- Resignation
- Nondisciplinary Reasons
Per Curiam. Asher Jeonggyun Keam was admitted to practice by this Court in 2016 and lists a business address in Arlington, Virginia with the Office of Court Administration. Keam 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 Keam's application.
Upon reading Keam's affidavit sworn to June 9, 2025, and filed June 20, 2025, and upon reading the July 22, 2025 correspondence in response by the Deputy Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Keam is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.
Garry, P.J., Clark, Pritzker, McShan and Mackey, JJ., concur. Ordered that Asher Jeonggyun Keam's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further ordered that Asher Jeonggyun Keam'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 Asher Jeonggyun Keam 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 Keam 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 Asher Jeonggyun Keam shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.