Erie-Huron Counties Joint Certified Grievance Committee v. Derby

{¶ 1} Respondent, Charles Paul Derby of Norwalk, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0055272, was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1991. In August 2010, relator, Erie-Huron Counties Joint Certified Grievance Committee, charged Derby with multiple violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct arising from his neglect of eight client bankruptcy matters, failure to reasonably communicate with his clients, and failure to notify his clients that he did not maintain malpractice insurance.

{¶ 2} The evidence in this case includes the parties’ stipulations of fact, the testimony of five of the…