The New Jersey Supreme Court has disciplined an attorney who tried to pass himself off as another lawyer at a hearing in order to cover up his prior suspension from practice.

The high court issued a one-year suspension to attorney Ralph A. Gonzalez, a solo practitioner in Voorhees, New Jersey, for identifying himself as John Underwood when he went to a 2017 Motor Vehicles Commission hearing on behalf of a client, the Disciplinary Review Board said.