Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court February 13, 2009 (In re Ngobeni)

Botsford, J.

In this case, here on a reservation and report by a single justice, we are asked to decide if S.J.C. Rule 4:01, § 16, as appearing in 425 Mass. 1319 (1997), authorizes reciprocal discipline of a lawyer admitted to practice in the Commonwealth who resigned from the practice of law in another jurisdiction during the pendency of bar discipline proceedings there without an admission or a