JOHN FROESCHNER, Magistrate Judge
On January 26, 2010, the District Clerk received and filed two identical Motions submitted by Plaintiff, Alex Melvin Wade, Jr. The Motions are each entitled "Motion to Strike Motion to Dismiss by Defendants Bank of America N.A. and Its Unknown Named Employees, Messer, Campbell Brady, Depo Texas and Craig Michael Becthel" and are docketed as Instruments 29 and 31. Attached to each Motion are documents which are entirely unrelated to this litigation which will be ignored by the Court.
In the Motions Wade asks the Court to strike the Motion to Dismiss of Messer, Campbell and Brady because one of its lawyers, Shawn K. Brady, is the firm's attorney of record in this case. According to Wade, a "corporation can not be represented by an officer of the corporation, even if that officer is an attorney-at-law."
Wade is wrong and, under the circumstances of this case, the Court sees no need to await a response from the Defendants. "A corporation may appear through retained outside counsel or by in-house counsel on the corporate payroll." Hertzog Calamari Gleason v. Prudential Insurance Company of America, 850 F.Supp. 255 (S.D. N.Y. 1994)
It is, therefore, ORDERED that Wade's Motions to Strike (Instrument nos. 29 and 31) are DENIED.