Matter of Whitby
2026 NY Slip Op 03047 [249 AD3d 1388]
May 14, 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 Jessica Susan Soares Whitby, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 5691274.)
May 14, 2026
HEADNOTES
Attorney and Client — Resignation — Nondisciplinary Reasons
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Jessica Susan Soares Whitby, Melbourne, Australia, 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. Jessica Susan Soares Whitby was admitted to practice by this Court in 2019 and lists a business address in Melbourne, Australia with the Office of Court Administration. Whitby 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 Whitby's application.
Upon reading Whitby's affidavit sworn to April 14, 2026, and filed April 27, 2026, and upon reading the May 4, 2026 correspondence in response by the Deputy Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Whitby is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant her application and accept her resignation.
Pritzker, J.P., Ceresia, Powers, Mackey and Ryba, JJ., concur. Ordered that Jessica Susan Soares Whitby's application for permission to resign is granted and her nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further ordered that Jessica Susan Soares Whitby'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 Jessica Susan Soares Whitby 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 Whitby 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 Jessica Susan Soares Whitby shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to her.