Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Ass'n v. Axner

{¶ 1} Respondent, Gary Ray Axner of Cleveland, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0018278, was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1971. In a five-count amended complaint filed in October 2011, relator, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, charged Axner with professional misconduct arising from his alleged neglect of five separate client matters, his failure to reasonably communicate with some of those clients, his employment of a suspended attorney for approximately 13 years, and his initial failure to cooperate in two of the resulting disciplinary investigations. 1

{¶ 2} The parties…