Close Enough To Disbar

The New York Appellate Division for the First Judicial Department disbarred an attorney who practiced in Michigan. The attorney had been disbarred in Michigan as a result of a plea of no contest to one felony count of driving while intoxicated. The court  here concluded that summary disbarment was appropriate in New York even though the crime is not the “mirror image” of the analogue felony offense in New York. So long as the two crimes are essentially similar, the conviction requires disbarment in New York. (Mike Frisch)