Columbus Bar Ass'n v. Winkfield

I would adopt the board’s recommendation to indefinitely suspend respondent.

To justify its departure from the board’s recommendation, the majority notes that “[s]even months of the delay in returning the funds to the Lowerys can be attributed to the former attorney for respondent.” I do not disagree with this finding, but it does not account for respondent’s sole control of the funds for nearly fourteen months after receiving the Lowerys’ termination notice and demand for accounting. Nor does it account for the panel’s other troubling findings: that “the testimony of the Respondent was glib…