In Re Disciplinary Action Against Ward

ORDER. The Director of the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility has filed a petition for disciplinary action alleging that respondent Thomas Robert Ward has committed professional misconduct warranting public discipline, namely: (1) entering into a business transaction with a client that was not fair and reasonable, failing to fully disclose all of the terms of the transaction to the client in a manner that could be reasonably understood by the client, failing to obtain from the client a consent to the transaction in a document separate from the transaction documents, failing to…