Monthly report

Attorney discipline, December 2015

23 New York attorney discipline decisions in December 2015: 9 disbarred or resigned under investigation, 5 suspended, 6 censured, 2 reinstated. With links to each decision.

Disbarred or resigned under investigation (9)

• Lawrence Scott Hartman — Matter of Hartman, 2015 NY Slip Op 09687 · Second Department · Disbarred
• Matter of Glover — Matter of Glover, 2015 NY Slip Op 09542 · Fourth Department · Resigned (resignation accepted)
• Richard Adam Kassel — Matter of Kassel, 2015 NY Slip Op 09391 · First Department · Disbarred
• Arthur Friedman — Matter of Friedman, 2015 NY Slip Op 09390 · First Department · Disbarred
• Mathew Ross Sheldon — Matter of Sheldon, 2015 NY Slip Op 09291 · Second Department · Disbarred
• Matter of Bouyea — Matter of Bouyea, 2015 NY Slip Op 09164 · Third Department · Disbarred
• Ronald Meltzer — Matter of Meltzer, 2015 NY Slip Op 08945 · First Department · Disbarred
• Keith Andrew Hawthorne — Matter of Hawthorne, 2015 NY Slip Op 08944 · First Department · Disbarred
• Matter of Sheth — Matter of Sheth, 2015 NY Slip Op 08846 · Second Department · Disbarred

Suspended (4)

• Michael P. Benenati — Matter of Benenati, 2015 NY Slip Op 09644 · First Department · Suspended
• Barry Alan Hoffberg — Matter of Hoffberg, 2015 NY Slip Op 09433 · Second Department · Suspended for one year
• Edgar H. Paltzer — Matter of Paltzer, 2015 NY Slip Op 08946 · First Department · Suspended
• William Antwi — Matter of Antwi, 2015 NY Slip Op 08770 · First Department · Suspended

Interim suspension (1)

• John Joseph O'Brien — Matter of O'Brien, 2015 NY Slip Op 09646 · First Department · Interim suspension

Public censure (6)

• Matter of Horne — Matter of Horne, 2015 NY Slip Op 09778 · Fourth Department · Public censure
• Matter of Laub — Matter of Laub, 2015 NY Slip Op 09538 · Fourth Department · Public censure
• Paul Michael Shanley — Matter of Shanley, 2015 NY Slip Op 09537 · Fourth Department · Public censure
• Matter of Ackerman — Matter of Ackerman, 2015 NY Slip Op 09429 · Second Department · Public censure
• Matter of Lavan — Matter of Lavan, 2015 NY Slip Op 08903 · Third Department · Public censure
• Paul Nicholas Lovegrove — Matter of Lovegrove, 2015 NY Slip Op 08839 · Second Department · Public censure

Reinstated (2)

• Peter John Galasso — Matter of Galasso, 2015 NY Slip Op 09432 · Second Department · Reinstated
• Matter of Levinson — Matter of Levinson, 2015 NY Slip Op 09287 · Second Department · Reinstated

Other decisions (1)

• Madeline Sheila Galvin — Matter of Galvin, 2015 NY Slip Op 09165 · Third Department · Relief denied / proceeding dismissed

All months

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