In re Hopkins

• Court: District of Columbia Court of Appeals
• Decided: June 9, 2022
• Docket: 21-BG-528
• Status: Published

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS

No. 21-BG-528

IN RE WILLIAM ELVIN HOPKINS, JR. 2021 DDN 146 A Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Bar Registration No. 1004177

BEFORE: Easterly and McLeese, Associate Judges, and Washington, Senior Judge.

ORDER (FILED—June 9, 2022)

On consideration of the certified copy of the order from the state of South Carolina suspending respondent from the practice of law in that state for three years by consent; this court’s April 7, 2022, order that continued respondent’s suspension from the practice of law in this jurisdiction and directed him to show cause why reciprocal discipline should not be imposed, no response having been filed; respondent’s D.C. Bar R. XI, §14(g) affidavit filed on August 17, 2021; and the statement of Disciplinary Counsel wherein he requests that this court impose the functional equivalent reciprocal discipline in the form of a three-year suspension with a fitness requirement, it is

ORDERED that William Elvin Hopkins, Jr. is hereby suspended from the practice of law in the District of Columbia for three years with reinstatement conditioned on a showing of fitness, nunc pro tunc to August 17, 2021. See In re Sibley, 990 A.2d 483 (D.C. 2010), and In re Fuller, 930 A.2d 194, 198 (D.C. 2007) (rebuttable presumption of identical reciprocal discipline applies unless one of the exceptions is established).

PER CURIAM