Matter of Cosca

Matter of Cosca (2023 NY Slip Op 04477)

Matter of Cosca

2023 NY Slip Op 04477

Decided on August 31, 2023

Appellate Division, Third Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided and Entered:August 31, 2023
PM-199-23



Calendar Date:August 28, 2023
Before:Garry, P.J., Clark, Reynolds Fitzgerald, Ceresia and McShan, JJ.

Cecilia Esther Cosca, Sterling, Virginia, pro se.

Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany, for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.

Per Curiam.

Cecilia Esther Cosca was admitted to practice by this Court in 1999 and lists a business address in Montville, New Jersey with the Office of Court Administration. Cosca 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 Cosca's application.

Upon reading Cosca's affidavit sworn to July 17, 2023 and filed July 20, 2023, and upon reading the August 21, 2023 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Cosca is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant her application and accept her resignation.

Garry, P.J., Clark, Reynolds Fitzgerald, Ceresia and McShan, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Cecilia Esther Cosca's application for permission to resign is granted and her nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

ORDERED that Cecilia Esther Cosca'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 Cecilia Esther Cosca 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 Cosca 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 Cecilia Esther Cosca shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to her.