Stark County Bar Ass'n v. Ake

{¶ 49} I respectfully dissent. “A lawyer shall not disregard * * * a ruling of a tribunal made in the course of a proceeding * * DR 7-106(A). The rule could not be more clear; a lawyer may not violate a court order. Ake not only acknowledged that he violated the order of the trial court, he brazenly acknowl*273edged that he had supplanted the trial court’s judgment with his own: “I also believed that the Court order was not — wouldn’t have been upheld on appeal and I believe that to this day.”

John A. Murphy Jr. and Richard S. Milligan, for relator. Charles J. Kettlewell, for respondent.

{¶ 50} We…