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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS

No. 22-BG-44

IN RE RACHAEL MOSHMAN, RESPONDENT.

A Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals

(Bar Registration No. 980349)

On Report and Recommendation of the Board on Professional 

Responsibility Hearing Committee Approving Petition for Negotiated Discipline 

(DDN-211-17)

(Decided March 24, 2022)

Before BECKWITH and MCLEESE, Associate Judges, and STEADMAN, Senior Judge.

PER CURIAM: This decision is non-precedential. Please refer to D.C. Bar R. 

XI, § 12.1(d) regarding the appropriate citation of this opinion.

In this disciplinary matter, the Hearing Committee recommends the approval 

of negotiated attorney discipline. See D.C. Bar R. XI, § 12.1(c). Respondent 

Rachael Moshman voluntarily acknowledged that she failed to provide competent 

representation while serving as a court-appointed conservator in a probate matter. 

Specifically, Ms. Moshman admitted that she negligently misappropriated her 
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client’s entrusted funds but reimbursed the client once the oversights were 

discovered. As a result, Ms. Moshman violated D.C. R. Prof. Conduct 1.1(a), 1.3(c),

and 1.15(a). Ms. Moshman and Disciplinary Counsel agreed that Ms. Moshman 

should be suspended for seven months, with thirty days of that suspension stayed in 

favor of a one-year period of probation with conditions to address accounting and 

office-management issues. 

Having reviewed the Committee’s recommendation, in accordance with our 

procedures in uncontested disciplinary cases, see D.C. Bar R. XI, § 12.1(d), we agree 

this case is appropriate for negotiated discipline and that the proposed sanction is not 

unduly lenient. See D.C. Bar R. XI, § 9(h)(2). Accordingly, it is

ORDERED that Rachael Moshman is hereby suspended from the practice of 

law in the District of Columbia for seven months, with thirty days of that suspension

stayed in favor of a one-year period of probation subject to the conditions specified 

in paragraph 12 of the Hearing Committee’s Report and Recommendation. In brief, 

those conditions are as follows: 

Ms. Moshman is required to take the Basic Training and 

Beyond two-day course offered by the District of 

Columbia Bar; to take two additional hours of preapproved continuing legal education related to the 

maintenance of trust accounts, record keeping, and/or 

safekeeping client property; to provide the Office of 

Disciplinary Counsel with proof documenting that she met 
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the requirements within the first six months of the court’s 

final order; within two months of the court’s order, to 

consult appropriately with the D.C. Practice Management 

Advisory Service (PMAS) about her case-management 

system; to implement PMAS’s recommendations when 

she resumes practice; and, within seven business days after 

the end of the period of probation, to provide Disciplinary 

Counsel with a written statement from PMAS certifying 

Ms. Moshman’s compliance.

Failure to comply with the conditions imposed may result in the revocation of 

probation and the imposition of the remaining thirty-day suspension. For purposes 

of reinstatement, Ms. Moshman’s suspension will not begin to run until she files an 

affidavit that fully complies with the requirements of D.C. Bar R. XI, § 14(g). 

So ordered.