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See, reinstatement granted, (attorney was suspended for 30 days after practicing while incorrectly believing he had been reinstated and, upon discovering he had engaged in unauthorized practice, immediately attempting to rectify his misconduct); 847 (Minn. 2012) (attorney was suspended for 60 days for practicing while suspended, including writing an appellate brief for a client, forging the client’s signature, and presenting the brief to the court as if it were a pro se document).

reinstatement granted, (order).

841–42 (Minn. 2012) (determining a lawyer committed misconduct by filing an appellate brief on behalf of a former client after being suspended, even though the client knew of the lawyer’s suspension when he filed the brief).

Practicing law while suspended “harm[s] the legal profession and do[es] not represent the virtues the public has the right to expe ct of lawyers.” .

Practicing law in violatio n of a suspensio n order “not only constitutes unauthorized practice of law, it also constitutes contempt of court.” (citatio n omitted) (interna l quotatio n marks omitted ).

“Practicing law in deliberate violation of a suspension order not only constitute [s] unauthorized practice of law[,] it also constitutes contempt of court.” (citations omitted) (inte rnal quotation marks omitted).

See In re Grigsby , , 842 (Minn. 2012) (stating that when an unlicensed person "acts in a representative capacity in protecting, enforcing, or defending the legal rights of another," that person engages in the unauthorized practice of law (citation omitted) (internal quotation marks omitted) ).

(stating that “an unlicensed person” engages in the “unauthorized practice of law” by acting in a representative capacity); License, Black’s Law Dictionary (10th ed. 2014) (“A privilege granted by a state or city upon .the payment of a fee, the recipient of the privilege then being authorized to do so

“Practicing law in deliberate violation of a suspension order not only ‘constitute^] unauthorized practice of law[,] it also constitutes contempt of court.’ ” ().

Practicing law while suspended “harm[s] the legal profession and do[es] not represent the virtues that the public has the right to expect of lawyers.”

See, -47 (Minn. 2012) (imposing a 60-day suspension for an attorney who made a false statement to the court of appeals and practiced law while suspended); d 463, 470 (Minn. 2009) (imposing a 120-day suspension for an attorney with a prior disciplinary history who made false statements to a tr

Practicing law while suspended “harm[s] the legal profession and do[es] not represent the virtues that the public has the right to expect of lawyers.”

We have disciplined attorneys for the unauthorized practice of law “in a variety of ways, taking into account what, if any, other misconduct the attorney committed.”

Compare (concluding a single instance of misconduct did not warrant enhanced discipline), with (concluding 30 instances of misappropriation warranted enhanced discipline), and (concluding that 17 instances of misappro