IN RE ABBEY

No. 16-BG-700.

169 A.3d 865 (2017)

IN RE Catherine E. ABBEY, Respondent.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 21, 2017.

Amended October 19, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abraham C. Blitzer , for respondent.

H. Clay Smith, III , Assistant Disciplinary Counsel, with whom Wallace E. Shipp, Jr. , Disciplinary Counsel at the time the brief was filed, Jennifer P. Lyman and Julia L. Porter , Senior Assistant Disciplinary Counsel, were on the brief, for the Office of Disciplinary Counsel.

Before Beckwith and Easterly, Associate Judges, and Reid, Senior Judge.


In its Report and Recommendation, dated July 12, 2016, the Board on Professional Responsibility has recommended that respondent, Catherine E. Abbey, be disbarred from the practice of law in the District of Columbia because of clear and convincing evidence that she (1) engaged in reckless misappropriation of entrusted funds, in...

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