"We hold that neither the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers nor the Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland is a "disciplining court" under D.C. Bar Rule XI, § 11(a) (2006); and that before reciprocal discipline may be imposed by this court for professional misconduct in another jurisdiction, an attorney admitted to practice in this jurisdiction must have been disciplined by a disciplining court outside the District, or by another court in the District." So concludes an interesting decision of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in In re Greenspan, ___ A.2d __, 2006 WL 3227786 (D.C. App. Nov. 9, 2006). The bar rule at issue only authorized reciprocal discipline where discipline had been ordered by a "disciplining court" and the systems in Massachusetts and Maryland did not require discipline by courts. It's an interesting read, with a dissent.