Cincinnati Bar Assn. v. Lawrence

{¶ 1} Respondent, Joy Lawrence of Cincinnati, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0030638, was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1985. In February 2004, relator, Cincinnati Bar Association, charged Lawrence with professional misconduct regarding two clients, arising from her failure to maintain complete records of the client funds in her possession, withdrawal of unearned fees from her client trust account, failure to perform contracted legal work, and failure to cooperate in the resulting disciplinary investigation. A probable-cause panel of the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and…