In re Mischel

OPINION OF THE COURT

Respondent was admitted to the practice of law in this State in 1980, at the Third Judicial Department. During all relevant *227periods since then, she has maintained an office for such practice within the First Department.

In 1996 respondent was charged, in a superior court information in Criminal Court, New York County, with offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree, a class E felony in violation of Penal Law § 175.35. Respondent waived indictment and pleaded guilty to the information, acknowledging her knowing and willing intent to defraud the State by…