Monthly report

Attorney discipline, August 2024

20 New York attorney discipline decisions in August 2024: 8 disbarred or resigned under investigation, 5 suspended, 5 censured, 2 reinstated. With links to each decision.

Disbarred or resigned under investigation (8)

• Kofi Owusu Amankwaa — Matter of Amankwaa, 2024 NY Slip Op 04346 · First Department · Disbarred
• Stephen Matthew Bander — Matter of Bander, 2024 NY Slip Op 04283 · First Department · Disbarred
• Jack Huu-Chinh Nguyen — Matter of Nguyen, 2024 NY Slip Op 04228 · First Department · Resigned while under investigation (treated as disbarment)
• Stewart David Pollak — Matter of Pollak, 2024 NY Slip Op 04206 · Second Department · Disbarred
• Matter of Cook — Matter of Cook, 2024 NY Slip Op 04136 · Second Department · Disbarred
• Laurie MacDonald Coe — Matter of Coe, 2024 NY Slip Op 04134 · Second Department · Disbarred
• Paul Stephen Beeber — Matter of Beeber, 2024 NY Slip Op 04133 · Second Department · Disbarred
• Derek Etheridge — Matter of Etheridge, 2024 NY Slip Op 04113 · First Department · Disbarred

Suspended (3)

• Richard Adam — Matter of Adam, 2024 NY Slip Op 04345 · First Department · Suspended
• Aubrey Claudius Galloway — Matter of Galloway, 2024 NY Slip Op 04318 · Second Department · Suspended for one year
• Daniel David Hediger — Matter of Hediger, 2024 NY Slip Op 04108 · Third Department · Suspended for three months

Interim suspension (2)

• John Spencer Jenkins — Matter of Jenkins, 2024 NY Slip Op 04284 · First Department · Interim suspension
• Wilson Daniel Swayze, Jr. — Matter of Swayze, 2024 NY Slip Op 04181 · Third Department · Interim suspension

Public censure (5)

• Jeffrey Charles Neiman — Matter of Neiman, 2024 NY Slip Op 04347 · First Department · Public censure
• Casey Milton Lovell — Matter of Lovell, 2024 NY Slip Op 04322 · Second Department · Public censure
• Herbert Ira Mendelsohn — Matter of Mendelsohn, 2024 NY Slip Op 04291 · Third Department · Public censure
• Allan Baldwin Cruikshank, Jr. — Matter of Cruikshank, 2024 NY Slip Op 04178 · Third Department · Public censure
• Leonard David Duboff — Matter of Duboff, 2024 NY Slip Op 04139 · Second Department · Public censure

Reinstated (2)

• David John Watson — Matter of Watson, 2024 NY Slip Op 04233 · Third Department · Reinstated
• John James Hays, Ii — Matter of Hays, 2024 NY Slip Op 04172 · Third Department · Reinstated

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