ATTORNEY GRIEVANCE COM'N OF MARYLAND v. Harper & Kemp

RODOWSKY, Judge.

The principal charges in these jointly tried attorney discipline cases allege violations of Rule 5.5 (Unauthorized practice of law) of the Maryland Lawyers’ Rules of Professional Conduct. 1 The violations concern a law office that operated in Baltimore City under the firm name, “Harper & Kemp,” from May 1995 until sometime in 1997.

One of the respondents, T. Clarence Harper (Harper), is an attorney who is licensed to practice in the District of Columbia. Throughout the relevant period Harper maintained an office on Georgia Avenue in the District of Columbia. His practice…