# In Re Berryman

> District of Columbia Court of Appeals · December 28, 2000 · 764 A.2d 760

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9695496

## Case

- **Full name:** In Re Matilene S. BERRYMAN, Respondent. a Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals
- **Court:** District of Columbia Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** December 28, 2000
- **Citations:** 764 A.2d 760; 2000 D.C. App. LEXIS 291; 2000 WL 1877786
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence
- **Judges:** Schwelb, Farrell, Reid
- **Cited by:** 45 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9695496

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that except for the Addams rule, which is too inflexible, disbarment would not be warranted in the Berryman case where a lengthy suspension would have met fully the objectives of the disciplinary system
- recognizing that "[o]ur misappropriation rule 'does not require scienter; rather, it is essentially a per se offense' "

## Opinion text

concurring:
I join entirely Judge Reid’s opinion for the court, but do not wish to be read as endorsing the current Board’s view that the Addams rule is too inflexible and should be reconsidered.

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