In Re Ukwu

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• holding that an attorney’s failure to file a brief by the due date set by the court, when the attorney had previously stated his intention to file a brief, violated Rule 8.4(d)
• holding that an attorney violated DCRPC 8.4(c) by conduct including “directing a client to file with the IRS a letter containing representations that [the lawyer], at a minimum, should have known were false . . .”
• imposing fitness requirement and a two-year suspension upon attorney who engaged in dishonest conduct in the representation of five clients and neglected the interests of one client
• imposing two-year suspension with fitness requirement, based on pervasive neglect of five clients and dishonesty in connection with one matter
• \[K]nowing abandonment of a client is the classic case of a Rule 1.3(b)(1) violation.\
• invoking the foregoing rule of thumb where Disciplinary Counsel recommended suspension as “one of two alternative proposals” (the other being disbarment); concluding that outright disbarment was not appropriate

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