Cleveland attorney permanently disbarred for egregious misconduct

The Ohio Supreme Court permanently disbarred a Cleveland attorney after finding “a significant deficiency” in his “core ethical obligations of honesty, trustworthiness, diligence and reliability.” A 5-2 majority held in a per curiam opinion that numerous aggravating factors outweighed the few mitigating circumstances in the case of John Barry Frenden, who was admitted to the [...]