Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Ass'n v. Ranke

{¶ 1} Respondent, Carolyn Kaye Ranke of Cleveland, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0043735, was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1989. On December 8, 2008, relator, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, filed a two-count complaint against her. The complaint alleged that while representing a husband and wife following the husband’s catastrophic injury in an automobile accident, respondent had committed multiple violations of DR 6-101(A)(3) (prohibiting neglect of an entrusted legal matter) and 7-101(A) (prohibiting a lawyer from (1) intentionally failing to seek the lawful…