A Bronx-based lawyer has been disbarred after she failed to sufficiently answer attorney grievance committee inquiries and then never appeared for disciplinary proceedings centered on “disturbing emails” she’d sent to the New York City Bar Association that “raised questions as to her mental health,” according to a state appeals court decision disbarring her.

Mychel K. Russell-Ward, who was admitted to the bar in 2009, ignored over the course of eight months in 2019 five separate letters sent to her by the First Judicial Department’s attorney grievance committee that instructed her to explain committee allegations about her “disturbing emails to the New York City Bar Association,” according to an Appellate Division, First Department decision issued in November 2019 that first suspended Russell-Ward.

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