New York attorney Soma Sengupta, 52, was disbarred after she was found to have forged documents in her attempt to become a British barrister. She was convicted in February 2013 in Manhattan Supreme Court after the court found that Sengupta, acting with a codefendant, forged documents about her educational and professional qualifications and submitted some of these false documents to the Office of Court Administration. Sengupta, who was admitted in New York in 2000, was sentenced in March to five years probation and fined $5,000.
A felony conviction results in automatic disbarment, noted an Appellate Division, First Department panel, citing Judiciary Law §90[4][e]. Presiding Justice Luis Gonzalez and Justices Angela Mazzarelli, David Friedman, David Saxe and Dianne Renwick sat on the panel in In the Matter of Sengupta, 2013 NY Slip Op 04563.
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