Court Opinion

ID: 9757779
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 22:58:43.111507+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:28:44.222637
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KELLY, Associate Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part:
I concur in all but Part IV of the majority opinion. As I read the record, there is no dispute that respondent did not practice law in the District of Columbia during the period of his suspension. To have done so, he says, citing Md.Ann.Code Art. 10, § 1 (1957) and 61 Op.Atty.Gen. 43 (1976), would have been a violation of the Maryland order. Bar counsel argues only that since respondent’s name remained on the active roll of our Bar during the suspension, he was “eligible for all privileges and subject to all liabilities attendant to that status,” and that a “voluntary withdrawal from practice cannot be equated with the imposition of professional discipline.” These arguments are unpersuasive. I see no reason to remand. It is appropriate under these circumstances to suspend respondent from the practice of law in the District of Columbia for a thirty-day period nunc pro tunc to run concurrently with his Maryland suspension.1

. I note in passing that as a result of show cause orders, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland declined to impose additional discipline, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered a concurrent thirty-day suspension nunc pro tunc.