(1) An attorney-at-law shall not in connection with his or her practice, employ or remunerate any person who to his or her knowledge is suspended from practice, during the period of such suspension, or whose name has been removed from the Roll otherwise than at his or her own request.
(2) An attorney-at-law who contravenes subsection (1) commits professional misconduct and upon being found guilty in disciplinary proceedings by the Committee is liable to any punishment which the Committee may impose under section 39.