Cleveland Bar Ass'n v. Russell

{¶ 1} Respondent, James Frederick Russell of Cleveland, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0041193, was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1966.

{¶ 2} The Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline recommends that we publicly reprimand respondent based on findings that he violated DR 1-102(A)(4) (prohibiting a lawyer from engaging in conduct involving fraud, deceit, dishonesty, or misrepresentation) by notarizing the grantors’ signatures on two deeds without having actually witnessed the signatures. On review, we find that respondent committed this violation of the Code of…