A young Manhattan attorney who ran a firm's practice by wrongfully taking instructions from her old boss, who was suspended from practicing law, has now been suspended herself by a state appeals court.

Natalia Sishodia, admitted to practice in 2014, will serve a two-year suspension in New York state after she helped manage the Manhattan boutique of Felix Nihamin and Associates by taking a “significant number of actions at the direction” of Felix Nihamin.

Sishodia, now 33, also lied about and/or “falsely minimized” Nihamin's role in an affidavit, an answer, an interview, a letter and deposition testimony, said an Appellate Division, First Department, panel in a Sept. 5 opinion in Matter of Sishodia, 2017 NY Slip Op 06407.