Cleveland Bar Ass'n v. Sharp Estate Services, Inc.

{¶ 1} On July 5, 2002, relator, Cleveland Bar Association (“CBA”), filed an amended complaint with the Board on the Unauthorized Practice of Law pursuant to Rule VII of the Ohio Supreme Court’s Rules for the Government of the Bar, asserting that respondents Sharp Estate Services, Inc., Asset Preservation Group, Inc., Sharp Estate & Insurance Services, Inc., Jeffrey G. Sharp, Robert Clapacs, and Diane C. Sharp (collectively, “Sharp”), Henry W. Abts III, and The Estate Plan (“TEP”) engaged in the unauthorized practice of law in Ohio. The *220complaint alleged that each respondent sold living-trust…