Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Blackwell

We adopt the findings and conclusions of the board. In a case decided this same day, we suspended an attorney for one year with six months stayed because he practiced after having been suspended. Disciplinary Counsel v. Bancsi (1997), 79 Ohio St.3d 392, 683 N.E.2d 1072. In Bancsi, the attorney was originally suspended for failing to meet the substance abuse component of his CLE requirement and continuing to represent clients during the five-week period before his pending reinstatement motion was granted.

In this case respondent not only continued to practice law after having been suspended for…