Maxim Maximov, a plaintiff’s attorney whose name is well known within the accounts receivable management industry, has resigned his practice following an investigation by three judicial districts within the New York State Court System.
A copy of the order from the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department is available by clicking here.
Maximov had been an attorney admitted to the Bar in New York since 2009.
Maximov admitted in his affidavit resigning as an attorney that he was the subject of an investigation by the Grievance Committee for the Second, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Judicial Districts and that “he cannot successfully defend against these allegations.” The allegations included the “following acts of professional misconduct: sharing legal fees with a nonlegal organization, the Advocacy Foundation of New York.”
Under the order, Maximov was disbarred and ordered to refrain from practicing law in any form, appearing as an attorney before any Judge, providing his opinion as to the law or its application, and holding himself out as an attorney.
Back in 2017, an industry attorney submitted a grievance against Maximov, accusing him or filing lawsuits in jurisdictions in which the plaintiffs did not reside. The attorney found at least 16 lawsuits in which Maximov alleged the plaintiff resided in Kings County, N.Y., but they all lived elsewhere. Two of the 16 lived in an entirely different state. Maximov tried to explain that the allegations were a result of an “inadvertent oversight” and filed motions to transfer the cases to their appropriate jurisdictions.
