Matter of Kawira
2026 NY Slip Op 02913 [249 AD3d 1309]
May 7, 2026
Appellate Division, Third Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, July 8, 2026
In the Matter of Timothy Maganga Kawira, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 5803614.)
May 7, 2026
HEADNOTES
Attorney and Client — Resignation — Nondisciplinary Reasons
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Timothy Maganga Kawira, Mercerville, New Jersey, 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. Timothy Maganga Kawira was admitted to practice by this Court in 2020 and lists a business address in Trenton, New Jersey with the Office of Court Administration. Kawira 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 Kawira's application.
Upon reading Kawira's affidavit sworn to March 4, 2026, and filed March 16, 2026, and upon reading the April 24, 2026 correspondence in response by the Deputy Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Kawira is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant his application and accept his resignation.
Reynolds Fitzgerald, J.P., Ceresia, McShan, Mackey and Ryba, JJ., concur. Ordered that Timothy Maganga Kawira's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further ordered that Timothy Maganga Kawira'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 Timothy Maganga Kawira 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 Kawira 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 Timothy Maganga Kawira shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.