MOTION FOR REINSTATEMENT IN RE: Tara Anne Laudonio (2011)

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

MOTION FOR REINSTATEMENT IN RE: Tara Anne Laudonio, admitted as Tara A. Puterbaugh, a suspended attorney.  (Attorney Registration No. 2916153) Motion by the respondent for reinstatement to the Bar as an attorney and counselor-at-law.  The respondent was admitted to the Bar at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department on November 4, 1998, under the name Tara A. Puterbaugh.  By decision and order on motion of this Court dated July 24, 2007, this Court denied that branch of the Grievance Committee's motion which sought the respondent's interim suspension pursuant to 22 NYCRR 691.4(l(1)(i)(ii) and (iii), and granted that branch of the motion which was for leave to institute and prosecute a disciplinary proceeding against the respondent and two co-respondents, and referred the issues raised to Steven C. Krane, as Special Referee to hear and report.  By opinion and order dated May 11, 2010, this Court suspended the respondent from the practice of law for six months, commencing June 10, 2010, based on five charges of professional misconduct.  Upon the papers filed in support of the motion and the papers filed in relation thereto, it is ORDERED that the motion is granted;  and it is further, ORDERED that, effective immediately, the respondent Tara Anne Laudonio, admitted as Tara A. Puterbaugh is reinstated as an attorney and counselor-at-law and the Clerk of the Court is directed to restore the name of Tara Anne Laudonio to the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law.  PRUDENTI, P.J., RIVERA, SKELOS, DILLON and CHAMBERS, JJ., concur.  ENTER:  Matthew G. Kiernan Clerk of the Court

2007–04155

Decided: August 09, 2011

A. GAIL PRUDENTI, P.J. REINALDO E. RIVERA PETER B. SKELOS MARK C. DILLON CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, JJ.