In Re Brown’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “[t]he reciprocal discipline in the District of Columbia identical to Respondent’s resignation pending disciplinary proceedings in New York is a suspension, with his reinstatement conditioned upon a showing that he is fit to resume the practice of law in the District of Columbia. Although the length of Respondent’s wait for readmission to the New York Bar is seven years, we regard a suspension for five years as the functionally identical discipline in this jurisdiction. The disciplinary rules in the District of Columbia do not provide for a suspension period as long as seven years, and the period a disbarred lawyer must wait to apply for readmission is five years. See D.C. Code Bar R. IX, §§ 3(a), 16. A five-year suspension in the District of Columbia thus performs much the same function as a seven-year waiting period in New York. In both cases, the disciplined lawyer must wait for the same .period a disbarred lawyer would have to wait to apply for readmission to the bar.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Goldman