Powell v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

*561OPINION

JUSTICE DOUGHERTY

We granted discretionary review to consider whether an attorney who has been suspended from the practice of law by this Court may represent a claimant in unemployment compensation proceedings. A divided three-judge panel of the Commonwealth Court determined the claimant is entitled to his choice of representative, even if that representative is a suspended attorney, and remanded for a new hearing. We affirm the decision to remand, but reverse the Commonwealth Court’s holding that a suspended attorney may represent claimants in unemployment compensation proceedings.

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