IN RE: Tim Robert RAMNITZ (2024)

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON MOTION

Tim Robert Ramnitz was admitted to practice by this Court in 2006 and lists a business address in Washington, DC with the Office of Court Administration.  Ramnitz has applied to this Court, by affidavit sworn to June 28, 2024, for 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) opposes the application, contending that Ramnitz is ineligible for nondisciplinary resignation because he has failed to fulfill his attorney registration requirements for the 2024–2025 biennial period (see Judiciary Law § 468–a;  Matter of Lee, 148 A.D.3d 1350, 1350, 47 N.Y.S.3d 923 [3d Dept. 2017];  Matter of Bomba, 146 A.D.3d 1226, 1226–1227, 46 N.Y.S.3d 433 [3d Dept. 2017];  Rules of Chief Admr of Cts [22 NYCRR] § 118.1).

In reply to AGC's opposition, however, Ramnitz has submitted a supplemental filing, dated August 16, 2024, in which he attests that he is now current in his New York attorney registration requirements.  Furthermore, Office of Court Administration records likewise establish that Ramnitz has duly registered and cured any preexisting registration delinquency.  Accordingly, with AGC voicing no other substantive objection to his application, and having determined that Ramnitz is now eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons (compare Matter of Tierney, 148 A.D.3d 1457, 1458, 51 N.Y.S.3d 638 [3d Dept. 2017];  Matter of Bomba, 146 A.D.3d at 1227, 46 N.Y.S.3d 433), we grant the application and accept his resignation.

ORDERED that Tim Robert Ramnitz's application for permission to resign is granted and his nondisciplinary resignation is accepted;  and it is further

ORDERED that Tim Robert Ramnitz'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 Tim Robert Ramnitz 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 Ramnitz 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 Tim Robert Ramnitz shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to him.

Per Curiam.

Garry, P.J., Egan Jr., Aarons, Pritzker and McShan, JJ., concur.