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IN RE LAIBSTAIN

No. 02-BG-86.

841 A.2d 1259 (2004)

In re Richard H. LAIBSTAIN, Respondent. and In re Joel Steinberg, Respondent. A Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 12, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Rooney, Assistant Bar Counsel, with whom Joyce E. Peters, Bar Counsel, was on the brief, for the Office of Bar Counsel.

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

Before SCHWELB and GLICKMAN, Associate Judges, and KERN, Senior Judge.

PER CURIAM:

"What's in a name?"1 In these two consolidated cases, the Board on Professional Responsibility and Bar Counsel ask us to clarify the requirement embodied in D.C. Bar R. XI, § 11(f)(2), that reciprocal attorney discipline shall be "identical" to the discipline imposed by the foreign jurisdiction unless certain conditions are met. We hold that the substance of the reciprocal discipline is more important for purposes of ...

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