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A decision from the Maryland Court of Appeals

An attorney, admitted in Maryland, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia, was disciplined in Massachusetts (where the misconduct occurred) and then in the District of Columbia for seeking, over a 4 month period, reimbursement from her employing law firm for expenses that were personal in nature and for which she was not entitled to reimbursement, and for submitting falsified invoices in support of the same. In Massachusetts, the attorney was suspended for one year and one day. In the District of Columbia, the attorney was suspended, on a reciprocal basis, for a year and a day, nunc pro tunc as of 6 December 2013, with reinstatement contingent on a showing of fitness. Her misconduct warrants in Maryland a reciprocal sanction of an indefinite suspension, with the right to apply for reinstatement no sooner than when she is readmitted to practice in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.

(Mike Frisch)