Monthly report

Attorney discipline, March 2014

18 New York attorney discipline decisions in March 2014: 10 disbarred or resigned under investigation, 7 suspended, 1 censured, 0 reinstated. With links to each decision.

Disbarred or resigned under investigation (10)

• Matter of Lynch — Matter of Lynch, 2014 NY Slip Op 02212 · Fourth Department · Resigned (resignation accepted)
• Isaac Mannes Zucker — Matter of Zucker, 2014 NY Slip Op 02067 · Second Department · Disbarred
• Matter of Sherman — Matter of Sherman, 2014 NY Slip Op 02057 · Second Department · Disbarred
• Matter of Robert E. Link — Matter of Robert E. Link, 2014 NY Slip Op 02047 · Second Department · Disbarred
• John Michael Ioannou — Matter of Ioannou, 2014 NY Slip Op 01999 · First Department · Disbarred
• Claudine K King — Matter of King, 2014 NY Slip Op 01842 · First Department · Disbarred
• Matter of Seplow — Matter of Seplow, 2014 NY Slip Op 01762 · Second Department · Disbarred
• Sean Francis McCaffrey — Matter of McCaffrey, 2014 NY Slip Op 01753 · Second Department · Disbarred
• Robert Carl Fontanelli — Matter of Fontanelli, 2014 NY Slip Op 01749 · Second Department · Disbarred
• Matter of Hummel — Matter of Hummel, 2014 NY Slip Op 01611 · Second Department · Disbarred

Suspended (7)

• David Boris Bernfeld — Matter of Bernfeld, 2014 NY Slip Op 02153 · First Department · Suspended
• Matter of Pugliese — Matter of Pugliese, 2014 NY Slip Op 02053 · Second Department · Suspended for two years
• Michael John Meenan — Matter of Meenan, 2014 NY Slip Op 02048 · Second Department · Suspended for six months
• John Martin Bigler — Matter of Bigler, 2014 NY Slip Op 02043 · Second Department · Suspended for two years
• Jonathan N. Thalasinos — Matter of Thalasinos, 2014 NY Slip Op 01680 · First Department · Suspended for three years
• Adam Kenneth Block — Matter of Block, 2014 NY Slip Op 01531 · First Department · Suspended — registration non-compliance
• Matter of Chernyy — Matter of Chernyy, 2014 NY Slip Op 01451 · Second Department · Suspended for six months

Public censure (1)

• Ian Leslie Polow — Matter of Polow, 2014 NY Slip Op 01757 · Second Department · Public censure

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Source: NY Official Reports (Law Reporting Bureau); current as of October 2026.