IN RE: Linda M. HOWARD (a/k/a Linda M. Howard Ahmed) (1997)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.

IN RE: Linda M. HOWARD (a/k/a Linda M. Howard Ahmed), admitted as Linda Marie Howard, a suspended attorney. Departmental Disciplinary Committee for the First Judicial Department, Petitioner, Linda M. Howard, Respondent.

Decided: December 04, 1997

Before ROSENBERGER, J.P., and WALLACH, TOM, MAZZARELLI and ANDRIAS, JJ.

Clarence Smith, Jr., of counsel (Hal R. Lieberman, attorney), for petitioner. No appearance for respondent.

The respondent, Linda M. Howard, was admitted to the practice of law in the State of New York by the First Judicial Department on April 23, 1990 as Linda Marie Howard.

On December 3, 1996, this Court issued an order pursuant to 22 N.Y.C.R.R. 603.4(e)(1)(i), suspending respondent from the practice of law until further order of this Court. Respondent was suspended due to her willful failure to cooperate with the Departmental Disciplinary Committee in its investigations into three separate complaints against her, which alleged, inter alia, that respondent had neglected matters entrusted to her.

The Committee now petitions this Court for an order disbarring respondent pursuant to 22 N.Y.C.R.R. 603.4(g). This rule states that an attorney who is suspended, and who has not appeared or applied in writing to the Committee or the Court for a hearing or reinstatement within six months from the date of the order of suspension, may be disbarred without further notice.

More than six months have passed since this Court issued its December 3, 1996 order. Though respondent personally obtained from the Committee a copy of the suspension order in March 1997, and was informed that she had approximately three months to file an answer to the Committee's motion or request a hearing or reinstatement, she has not made any such application.

Accordingly, the Committee's petition is granted and respondent is disbarred.

All concur.

PER CURIAM.

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