Toledo Bar Ass'n v. Cook

{¶ 1} In this case, we must decide the appropriate sanction for an attorney who prepared a will that named the attorney’s siblings’ corporation as a beneficiary in a situation where the testator was not related to the attorney’s siblings. The Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline found that respondent, Linda S. Cook of Sylvania, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0061876, committed this conduct and that, by her own admission, she violated DR 5-101(A)(2) (an attorney shall not prepare a will, codicil, or living trust that names the attorney’s siblings as beneficiaries unless the…