A veteran personal injury and criminal defense attorney has been suspended from practicing law for three months after allowing an unlicensed law school graduate employed at his office to perform lawyer-only duties such as appearing on a client’s behalf at a deposition.

Michael I. Braverman, who runs a boutique law office in the Bronx, has been suspended for three months by a unanimous Appellate Division, First Department panel. In an Oct. 1 opinion, the panel wrote that Braverman had “permitted an unlicensed law school graduate employed by his office to, inter alia, attend various preliminary conferences and to sign preliminary conference orders and stipulations as ‘attorney for plaintiff,’ and to appear for a client at a deposition.”

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