Matter of Hurckes

Holding The court granted the Attorney Grievance Committee’s motion for reciprocal discipline, imposing an immediate interim suspension on respondent based on his emergency suspension in Florida. The court found that respondent’s misconduct, including neglect of client matters and false advertising, constituted professional misconduct in New York and that no defenses to reciprocal discipline applied.

The court’s words

respondent’s clients filed 19 inquiry/complaints against him with the Florida Bar, demonstrating an ongoing pattern of misconduct

252 AD3d 97, at the official text

respondent’s website on which he advertised his legal services stated that he had ‘‘over 20 years of service’’

252 AD3d 97, at the official text

An interim suspension is the appropriate sanction herein as it is commensurate with the discipline imposed in Florida

252 AD3d 97, at the official text

respondent, Michael Alexander Hurckes, is suspended from the practice of law, effective immediately, and until further order of this Court

252 AD3d 97, at the official text