Disciplinary Counsel v. Thomas

{¶ 1} Respondent, James William Thomas Jr., formerly of Eaton, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0074051, was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 2001. We suspended Thomas’s license on an interim basis, effective July 22, 2014, after he was convicted of two counts of theft and one count of theft from the elderly— all felonies committed against individuals for whom he served as a court-appointed guardian — and three misdemeanor counts of falsification. See In re Thomas, 140 Ohio St.3d 1224, 2014-Ohio-3174, 15 N.E.3d 871.

{¶ 2} In an October 29, 2014 complaint, relator, disciplinary…