| Matter of Drislane |
| 2025 NY Slip Op 06119 [243 AD3d 1012] |
| November 6, 2025 |
| Appellate Division, Third Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| In the Matter of William Edward Drislane, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 2821304.) |
William Edward Drislane, Richmond, Vermont, 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
Per Curiam. William Edward Drislane was admitted to practice by this Court in 1997 and lists a business address in Williston, Vermont with the Office of Court Administration. Drislane 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 Drislane's application.
Upon reading Drislane's affidavit sworn to September 19, 2025, and filed September 22, 2025, and upon reading the October 27, 2025 correspondence in response by the Deputy Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Drislane is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.
Pritzker, J.P., Fisher, McShan, Powers and Mackey, JJ., concur. Ordered that William Edward Drislane's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further ordered that William Edward Drislane'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 William Edward Drislane 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 Drislane 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 William Edward Drislane shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.