During a suspension, which action would be prohibited?

• A. Collecting accounts receivable from clients
• B. Recommending a successor licensee to a client to continue work on her file
• C. Sharing office space with another licensee
• D. Billing clients for work completed before the suspension

Answer: (B)

During a suspension, you may not engage in practicing or arranging for others to practice on your behalf. Recommending a successor licensee to take over a client’s file would effectively allow ongoing professional services to be provided under someone else’s license while you’re suspended. That keeps the professional relationship going in a licensed capacity, which is not permitted during a suspension.

Collecting payments for work already completed before the suspension does not involve providing new licensed services, so it’s generally allowed. Sharing office space with another licensee is a business arrangement that doesn’t by itself involve practicing or presenting yourself as the active licensee, so it can be permissible as long as you’re not offering licensed services. Billing for work done prior to suspension similarly concerns payments for past work and doesn’t constitute ongoing practice during the suspension.

So the action that would be prohibited is recommending a successor licensee to continue work on her file.