PlainAttorney Register file of Sep 29, 2026 · NY Office of Court Administration, via data.ny.gov

Geoffrey Stuart Pope

On the New York attorney register since 1986 · office in White Plains, NY

PlainAttorney’s reading of the public register file, not a court record.

Registration No.
2056307
Admitted
1986 · First Department
Status
Delinquent
Next registration
Oct 2026

Geoffrey Stuart Pope is delinquent on the New York attorney register file of Sep 29, 2026. Admitted in 1986 in the First Department, with an office in White Plains, NY; next registration due Oct 2026. The status is the same in all 3 files we hold. The month shown is the next cycle’s; the delinquency concerns an earlier registration the register did not receive.

What this status means on the register

On the register, “Delinquent” means the attorney has a registration the register shows as due and not received. Under the rule a failure to register results in referral to the Appellate Division for disciplinary action; the register does not show whether a given attorney was referred.

  1. Delinquent unchanged
  2. Delinquent unchanged
  3. Delinquent the first file we hold

Source: NY Office of Court Administration, attorney registration file (data.ny.gov, dataset eqw2-r5nb), downloaded Sep 29, 2026; the Jul 3, 2026 and Aug 6, 2026 files for the history.

Others who list this employer on the register

3 other attorneys list Cermele & Wood LLP or one of its other names as their employer on the register; 0 of them were admitted before 1986, and 2 of the 4 give an office in White Plains, NY. The 3 whose admission is closest to 1986, earliest first:

AttorneyAdmittedStatus
Mark Cermele2005Currently registered
Michael Robert Wood2007Currently registered
Samantha Molly Wald2021Currently registered

Source: NY Office of Court Administration, attorney registration file (data.ny.gov, dataset eqw2-r5nb), downloaded Sep 29, 2026; employer spellings merged (methodology).

Where this record sits on the register

Geoffrey Stuart Pope studied at Brooklyn Law School. 2,861 of its 20,058 living graduates on the register were admitted in the 1980s, as Geoffrey Stuart Pope was.

Same law school
20,058living graduates; 86.6% registered (current or due), against 87.1% overall
Office in White Plains, NY
3,313living registrants

Of the 3,313 living registrants with an office in White Plains, NY, 638 were admitted before 1986 and 2,595 after.

Source: NY Office of Court Administration, attorney registration file (data.ny.gov, dataset eqw2-r5nb), downloaded Sep 29, 2026; living registrants only.

Questions this record leads to

  1. Brooklyn Law School graduates on the register20,058 living, 86.6% registered.
  2. Attorneys with an office in White Plains, NY3,313 living registrants give an office there.
  3. Westchester County’s registered bar7,255 currently registered, 7.26 per 1,000 residents.
  4. Admitted in 19866,111 people admitted in 1986 are on the register, 1,967 of them through the First Department.
  5. Every registration that reads “Delinquent”15,500 on the register file of Sep 29, 2026, by decade of admission.
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How to confirm it officially

For a statement of Geoffrey Stuart Pope’s standing, contact the Attorney Registration Unit of the NY Office of Court Administration (nycourts.gov/attorneys), or ask the Appellate Division, First Department, which admitted Geoffrey Stuart Pope in 1986. A complaint about this attorney would go to the Second Department’s Grievance Committee for the Ninth Judicial District, which covers Westchester County, where the register places the office.

This page reads the register file of Sep 29, 2026, and the court system’s own search can be newer; the register shows only the current value, so a suspension that ended before the files we hold, or a censure, leaves no trace here (Appellate Division decisions are published through the court system’s Law Reporting Bureau).

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