Cleveland Bar Ass'n v. Stebbins

We adopt the findings and conclusions of the board. Nevertheless, we disagree with the board’s recommended sanction that respondent be publicly reprimanded.

Respondent misappropriated client funds by placing settlement proceeds that he had agreed to use to pay his client’s medical providers into his personal bank account for a period of over six years. In general, “[t]he continuing public confidence in the judicial system and the bar requires that the strictest discipline, lie., disbarment] be imposed in misappropriation cases.” Cleveland Bar Assn. v. Belock (1998), 82 Ohio St.3d 98, 100, 694…