The Ohio Supreme Court this week permanently disbarred a Lisbon attorney for her multiple acts of misconduct in probate matters. In a complaint filed by the Columbiana County Bar Association with the Board of Professional Conduct, Virginia Mary Barborak was alleged to have held funds belonging to probate estates in an interest-bearing trust account separate [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court recently imposed a stayed one-year suspension from the practice of law on an Akron attorney who was the subject of a civil action for delinquent taxes. The lawyer, Timothy Harman Champion, was admitted to the practice of law in the state in 1988. Last year, the city of Akron filed a [...]
A divided Ohio Supreme Court recently ruled 5-2 to suspend a Geauga County attorney from the practice of law for two years with 18 months stayed for a felony drug conviction and her mishandling of two client matters. Carly Snavely of Chagrin Falls was admitted to the practice of law in 2007 and in November [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court held this week that the dismissal of robbery charges against an immigrant defendant was “meaningless” when it came to possible deportation under immigration law. But the high court also held that a trial court’s failure to inform a defendant of possible deportation or other immigration consequences before admitting him to a [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court recently ruled that a Hamilton County Common Pleas Court judge “patently and unambiguously” lacked jurisdiction to consolidate and hear hundreds of medical malpractice cases filed against a doctor. The per curiam decision reversed the judgment of the 1st District Court of Appeals denying a writ of mandamus and prohibition requested by [...]
A divided Ohio Supreme Court recently rejected a Board of Professional Conduct recommendation to impose stayed suspensions for two attorneys charged with multiple ethical violations related to services they had performed for an elderly client. Nancy Zoller of Lyndhurst and Edward Mamone of Cleveland were both admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in [...]
The Ohio Attorney General’s Office this week certified a petition for a proposed amendment to the Ohio Constitution that would impose term limits for members of the state Supreme Court and change which laws apply to members and employees of the General Assembly. A group called the Committee to Impose Term Limits on the Ohio [...]
A recent decision from the Ohio Supreme Court returned a case to federal court after the justices ruled 5-2 that the state of Ohio does not recognize the tort of negligent misidentification. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio submitted three certified questions of law to the state’s high court concerning [...]
The dismissal of an action in mandamus was affirmed by the Ohio Supreme Court in a recent decision that addressed an appeal from a man who pleaded guilty to aggravated murder. The defendant, Daniel Littlepage, appealed from the judgment of the 1st District Court of Appeals where he was denied a writ of mandamus in [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio imposed a stayed suspension on a Columbus attorney this week for misuse of client funds. William Henry Truax Jr., who was admitted to the practice of law in 1976, was charged by the high court’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel with professional misconduct arising from his mismanagement of a client’s funds [...]