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IN RE BERGER

Nos. 97-BG-1979, 97-BG-1980.

737 A.2d 1033 (1999)

In re Neal BERGER and Frank A.K. Awuah, Respondents. Members of the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 16, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael S. Frisch, Senior Assistant Bar Counsel, with whom Leonard H. Becker, Bar Counsel, was on the brief, for Bar Counsel.

Elizabeth J. Branda, Executive Attorney, for the Board on Professional Responsibility.

Before SCHWELB, FARRELL and RUIZ, Associate Judges.

RUIZ, Associate Judge.

In both of these reciprocal discipline matters, one from New Jersey, and the second from Maryland, the Board on Professional Responsibility ("Board") has recommended that the court depart from the presumption of imposing identical sanction in a reciprocal discipline proceeding, by omitting a fitness requirement1 upon the completion of respondents' suspensions imposed as part of the sanctions in New Jersey and Maryland...

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