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                          APR 25.1
                RESTRICTIONS ON REINSTATEMENT


  (a) Petitions For Reinstatement.  All Petitions for
Reinstatement after Disbarment shall be referred for hearing
before the Character and Fitness Board.

  (b) When Petition May Be Filed.  No petition for reinstatement
shall be filed within a period of 5 years after disbarment or
within a period of 2 years after an adverse decision of the
Supreme Court upon a former petition, or within a period of 1
year after an adverse recommendation of the Character and Fitness
Board on a former petition when that recommendation is not
submitted to the Supreme Court. If prior to disbarment the lawyer
was suspended from the practice of law pursuant to the provisions
of Title 7 of the Rules for Enforcement of Lawyer Conduct, or any
comparable rule, the period of such suspension shall be credited
toward the 5 years referred to above.

  (c) When Reinstatement May Occur. No disbarred lawyer may be
reinstated sooner than 6 years following disbarment. If prior to
disbarment the lawyer was suspended from the practice of law
pursuant to the provisions of Title 7 of the Rules for
Enforcement of Lawyer Conduct, or any comparable rule, the period
of such suspension shall be credited toward the 6 years referred to above.

  (d) Payment of Obligations.  No disbarred lawyer may file a
petition for reinstatement until costs and expenses and
restitution ordered by the Disciplinary Board or the Supreme
Court have been paid and until amounts paid out of the Lawyers'
Fund for Client Protection for losses caused by the conduct of
the Petitioner have been repaid to the client protection fund, or
until periodic payment plans for costs and expenses, restitution
and repayment to the client protection fund have been entered
into by agreement between the Petitioner and disciplinary
counsel.  A Petitioner may seek review by the Chair of the
Disciplinary Board of an adverse determination by disciplinary
counsel regarding the reasonableness of any such proposed
periodic payment plan.  Such review will proceed as directed by
the Chair of the Disciplinary Board and the decision of the Chair
of the Disciplinary Board is final unless the Chair of the
Disciplinary Board determines that the matter should be reviewed
by the Disciplinary Board, in which case the Disciplinary Board
review will proceed as directed by the Chair and the decision of
the Board will be final.


[Adopted effective September 1, 2006.]
	

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