Disciplinary Counsel v. Dockry

{¶ 1} Respondent, Michael Brian Dockry of Youngstown, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0002845, was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1982. On April 11, 2011, relator, disciplinary counsel, filed a complaint alleging that Dockry had committed professional misconduct by depositing and maintaining personal funds in his client trust account, using that account to pay his personal and business expenses, borrowing client funds from the account for his personal use, failing to maintain ledgers of the client funds held in that account, and failing to reconcile the account.

{¶ 2} The parties…