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Date Created: 2023-05-04 14:04:23.988391+00
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              DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS

No. 21-BG-0456

IN RE SCOT STREMS
                                                            DDN: 2020-D127
A Suspended Member of the Bar of the
District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Bar Registration no. No. 1025368

BEFORE: Blackburne-Rigsby, Chief Judge, AliKhan, Associate Judge, and Fisher,
        Senior Judge.

                                    ORDER
                               (FILED— May 4, 2023)

       On further consideration of this court’s July 14, 2021, order suspending
respondent and staying this matter pending resolution of the Florida disciplinary
proceedings; the certified order from the state of Florida disbarring respondent from
the practice of law in that jurisdiction; this court’s March 10, 2023, order lifting the
stay and directing respondent to show cause why reciprocal discipline should not be
imposed; and the statement of Disciplinary Counsel wherein he requests that
reinstatement be conditioned upon respondent’s reinstatement in Florida; and it
appearing that respondent has not filed a response or his D.C. Bar R. XI, § 14(g)
affidavit, it is

       ORDERED that Scot Strems is hereby disbarred from the practice of law in
the District of Columbia and that prior to filing a petition for reinstatement he must
first be reinstated to practice law in the state of Florida. See In re Sibley, 990 A.2d
483, 487-88 (D.C. 2010) (explaining that there is a rebuttable presumption in favor
of imposition of identical discipline and exceptions to this presumption should be
rare); In re Fuller, 930 A.2d 194, 198 (D.C. 2007) (explaining that a rebuttable
presumption of identical reciprocal discipline applies unless one of the exceptions is
established); see also In re Hoffman, 267 A.3d 1016 (D.C. 2022) (conditioning
eligibility to seek reinstatement on readmission in original disciplining jurisdiction).
It is
No. 21-BG-0456

       FURTHER ORDERED that, for purposes of calculating his eligibility to seek
reinstatement, the mandatory five-year period of Mr. Strems’s disbarment will not
begin to run until such time as he files an affidavit that fully complies with the
requirements of D.C. Bar R. XI, § 14(g).

                                 PER CURIAM