Disciplinary Enforcement Rule I: Standards for Professional Conduct

(a) For misconduct as defined in paragraph (b) below, or for failure to comply with these Rules or any rule or order of this Court, and after notice and opportunity to be heard, any attorney admitted to practice before this Court may be reprimanded (publicly or privately), suspended from practice before this Court, disbarred, or subjected to such other disciplinary action as the circumstances may warrant.

(b) Acts or omissions by an attorney admitted to practice before this Court, individually or in concert with any other person or persons, which violate any Code of Professional Responsibility or other officially-adopted body of disciplinary rules applicable to the conduct of the attorney constitute misconduct. The Code of Professional Responsibility adopted by this Court is the Code of Professional Responsibility adopted by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, as amended from time to time by that Court, except as otherwise provided by specific Rule of this Court.