IN RE: Kathleen Paolo (2012)

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

IN RE: Kathleen Paolo, FOR REINSTATEMENT admitted as Kathleen Marcel Paolo, a disbarred attorney.  (Attorney Registration No. 1022839) Motion by Kathleen Paolo for reinstatement to the Bar as an attorney and counselor-at-law.  Ms. Paolo was admitted to the Bar at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department on March 15, 1978, under the name Kathleen Marcel Paolo.  By opinion and order of this Court dated February 17, 1987, Ms. Paolo was disbarred based on her conviction of grand larceny in the second degree, in violation of Penal Law § 155.35, a class D felony, and conspiracy in the fifth degree, in violation of Penal Law § 105.05, a class A misdemeanor, and her name was stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law (see Matter of Paolo, 125 A.D.2d 1).  Ms. Paolo's felony conviction was subsequently set aside by the New York Court of Appeals (see People v. Paolo, 73 N.Y.2d 596).  By decision and order on motion of this Court dated March 21, 2011, Ms. Paolo's motion for reinstatement was held in abeyance and the matter was referred to the Committee on Character and Fitness to hear and report on the respondent's current fitness to be an attorney.

2011–00572

Decided: January 17, 2012

WILLIAM F. MASTRO, A.P.J. REINALDO E. RIVERA PETER B. SKELOS MARK C. DILLON CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, JJ.