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Second Department, May 24, 2011
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Diana Maxfield Kearse, Brooklyn (Sharon Gursen Ades of counsel), for petitioner.
McDonough and McDonough, Westbury (Chris G. McDonough of counsel), for respondent.
{**86 AD3d at 122} OPINION OF THE COURT
Per Curiam.
By opinion and order of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York (Rakoff, J.) dated November 30, 2009 (2009 WL 4437951, 2009 US Dist LEXIS 112657 [SD NY 2009]), the respondent's name was stricken from the roll of attorneys admitted to practice before that court. The Committee on Grievances for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (hereinafter the Committee on Grievances), following an investigation, sustained nine charges of professional misconduct: neglecting a legal matter entrusted to the respondent, in violation of Code of Professional Responsibility DR 6-101 (a) (3) (22 NYCRR 1200.30 [a] [3]); failing to seek the lawful objectives of the respondent's client and failing to carry out a contract of employment to provide legal services, in violation of Code of Professional Responsibility DR 7-101 (a) (1) and (2) (22 NYCRR 1200.32 [a] [1], [2]); causing a certain individual, identified as inmate Doe, to solicit clients on her behalf in a federal prison, identified as federal prison X, in violation of Code of Professional Responsibility DR 2-103 (a) (22 NYCRR 1200.8 [a]); compensating inmate Doe for recommending employment by a client or having made a recommendation resulting in employment by a client, in violation of Code of Professional Responsibility DR 2-103 (d) (22 NYCRR 1200.8 [d]); sharing fees with a nonlawyer, in violation of Code of Professional Responsibility DR 3-102 (22 NYCRR 1200.17); charging and accepting excessive fees for her limited services, in violation of Code of Professional Responsibility DR 2

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