Matter of Hinkle

Matter of Hinkle (2021 NY Slip Op 04642)
Matter of Hinkle
2021 NY Slip Op 04642
Decided on August 5, 2021
Appellate Division, Third Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.


Decided and Entered:August 5, 2021

PM-102-21

[*1]In the Matter of Katharine Collins Hinkle, an Attorney. (Attorney Registration No. 5099627.)


Calendar Date:August 2, 2021
Before:Garry, P.J., Clark, Aarons, Pritzker and Colangelo, JJ.

Katharine Collins Hinkle, Seattle, Washington, pro se.

Monica A. Duffy, Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, Albany, for Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department.



Per Curiam.

Katharine Collins Hinkle was admitted to practice by this Court in 2013 and lists a business address in Seattle, Washington with the Office of Court Administration. Hinkle now seeks leave to resign from the New York bar for nondisciplinary reasons (see Rules for Attorney Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [a]). The Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department (hereinafter AGC) advises that it does not oppose Hinkle's application.

Upon reading Hinkle's affidavit sworn to June 9, 2021 and filed June 11, 2021, and upon reading the July 2, 2021 correspondence in response by the Chief Attorney for AGC, and having determined that Hinkle is eligible to resign for nondisciplinary reasons, we grant her application and accept her resignation.

Garry, P.J., Clark, Aarons, Pritzker and Colangelo, JJ., concur.

ORDERED that Katharine Collins Hinkle's application for permission to resign is granted and her nondisciplinary resignation is accepted; and it is further

ORDERED that Katharine Collins Hinkle'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 Attorney Disciplinary Matters [22 NYCRR] § 1240.22 [b]); and it is further

ORDERED that Katharine Collins Hinkle 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 Hinkle 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 herself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-at-law in this State; and it is further

ORDERED that Katharine Collins Hinkle shall, within 30 days of the date of this decision, surrender to the Office of Court Administration any Attorney Secure Pass issued to her.