The D.C. Court of Appeals suspended a lawyer as the District’s legal ethics board investigates charges that she tried to inflate her winnings from a lawsuit.

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Court of Appeals ordered Terri Lea to be suspended Thursday for at least 30 days and ordered her to cooperate with an ongoing ethics investigation, alleging that she tried to increase a lawsuit award from $13,500 to $50,000.

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