A state appeals court Tuesday suspended the license of a veteran Manhattan lawyer for 15 months, after he admitted to eight professional-misconduct violations that included him making false claims of exemption from CLE requirements even as he appeared in 15 different matters in state and federal courts.

Michael M. Strage, who the opinion says misrepresented himself as retired or as an active military member to avoid complying with CLE requirements, has been suspended nunc pro tunc, or retroactively, to Aug. 23, 2022. On that day last August, Strage, who was admitted to the state bar in 1986 and who appears to be a general counsel for a biopharmaceutical company, was immediately suspended from practicing law pending further possible discipline after not responding to an attorney grievance committee’s eight professional misconduct counts levied against him.

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