Matter of Pasay-Paz
2026 NY Slip Op 02915 [249 AD3d 1311]
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 Josefina L. Pasay-Paz, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 2230902.)
May 7, 2026
HEADNOTES
Attorney and Client — Resignation — Nondisciplinary Reasons
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Josefina L. Pasay-Paz, Makati City, Philippines, 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. Josefina L. Pasay-Paz was admitted to practice by this Court in 1989 and lists a business address in Makati City, Philippines with the Office of Court Administration. Pasay-Paz 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 Pasay-Paz's application.
Upon reading Pasay-Paz's affidavit sworn to March 19, 2026, and filed April 6, 2026, and upon reading the April 28, 2026 correspondence in response by the Deputy Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Pasay-Paz is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant her application and accept her resignation.
Pritzker, J.P., Ceresia, Fisher, McShan and Corcoran, JJ., concur. Ordered that Josefina L. Pasay-Paz's application for permission to resign is granted and her nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further ordered that Josefina L. Pasay-Paz'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 Josefina L. Pasay-Paz 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 Pasay-Paz 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 herself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law in this state; and it is further ordered that Josefina L. Pasay-Paz shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to her.