In re Katz

The Maryland Court of Appeals disbarred respondent Gerald Katz after it

determined that he had violated Maryland’s Lawyers’ Rules of Professional Conduct by willfully failing to timely file and pay his federal income taxes for over a decade Att’y Grievance Comm’n of Md. v. Katz, 443 Md. 389, 116 A.3d 999, 1007, 1013 (2015). Because D.C. Bar Rule XI, § 11 (c) establishes a default rule that this court should impose the same discipline as the original disciplining jurisdiction, this court ordered Mr. Katz to show cause why reciprocal discipline should not be imposed. Mr. Katz bears the burden to…