Mahoning County Bar Association v. Bauer

{¶ 1} Respondent, Roger Richard Bauer of Warren, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0015998, was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1973.

{¶ 2} On July 7, 2014, a probable-cause panel of the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline 1 certified to the board a single-count complaint filed against Bauer by relator, Mahoning County Bar Association. In that complaint, relator alleged that Bauer had committed multiple ethical violations in attempting to collect fees from the settlement of a personal-injury case that he had referred to another lawyer.

{¶ 3} The parties entered into…