(Rev. 12/3/2025)
1. Please submit requests for Attorney Resignations by electronically filing the request form (found in the Forms section of the website) as a newly filed Miscellaneous Case. Use CM/ECF and select the appropriate event — “Letter Requesting Attorney’s Resignation from SDNY Bar” — located under Civil à Open a Miscellaneous Case - Attorney à Letter Requesting Attorney's Resignation from SDNY Bar. Please complete all fields in the filing event.
2. You must include the following on your letter request:
- Full Name
- Business Address
- Home Address
- E-mail Address
- Phone Number
- SDNY Admission Date
- SDNY Bar Number
- NYS Bar Number (if applicable) *
- PACER Account Number (if applicable)
If you were admitted after October 6, 2018, your SDNY Bar ID is your NYS Bar number. *
If you were admitted between October 6, 2018 and 2001, your SDNY Bar ID is your first & last initial and the four numbers you selected at the time of your admission.
If you were admitted prior to 2001, your SDNY Bar ID is your first & last initial and the last four digits of your social security number, e.g. AB1234.
If you do not know your SDNY Bar ID please send an e-mail to Help_Desk@nysd.uscourts.gov. Your e-mail request must include:
- The attorney’s full name
- The firm name
- The last four digits of the social security number
- The state bar number
- The attorney’s e-mail address
Requests received during business hours will receive a response as soon as possible, and no later than two business days.
3. Do not mail the request or deliver this letter to Attorney Services. It can only be filed on CM/ECF using your own individual Pacer account. Any mailings requesting Attorney Resignations will be returned to you. Attorneys who are admitted pro hac vice are not fully admitted to the court and are not eligible for resignation. (Note: When making this request, please ensure that you go through the entire docketing event until the message appears that this entry has been docketed on CM/ECF)