Cuyahoga County Bar Ass'n v. Petrancek

We accept the findings and recommendations of the board. We are particularly concerned that respondent should have retained his client’s funds for nine years without depositing them as required by DR 9-102(A), and that, rather than seek the appointment of a successor fiduciary, he would file with the probate court documents signed in blank by the deceased executor.

Our rules require, and clients should expect, that funds given to a lawyer will be maintained in a bank account. We do not regard money in a box under an attic floorboard as the equivalent of a bank account.

*574Just as troubling to us…