Legal Opinion

In Re Amberly

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Decided June 25, 2009No. 08-BG-29PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

FISHER, Associate Judge:

In this reciprocal discipline proceeding, the Board on Professional Responsibility (“Board”) recommends that we impose the substantially different discipline of a thirty-day suspension. We accept the Board’s recommendation.

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This proceeding arises from allegations that Vincent Mark Amberly, an attorney licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia, 1 lied about attempting to serve a counterclaim on Martin B. Katz, a self-represented opposing party, in the General District Court of Fairfax County, Virginia, on September 19, 2005.

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