In Re the Discipline of Sonnenreich

DURRANT, Associate Chief Justice:

¶ 1 This appeal concerns the authority of the Utah State Bar (“the Bar”) to administratively suspend attorneys who fail to pay the Bar’s annual licensing fee. It also concerns the authority of the Bar’s Office of Professional Conduct (“the OPC”) to bring an unauthorized practice of law complaint against an attorney who continues to practice law while administratively suspended.

¶2 In 1999, the Bar suspended Sharon Sonnenreich for failing to pay her annual licensing fee. Although she subsequently paid the fee, the OPC filed a complaint in district court alleging…