Columbus Bar Ass'n v. Halliburton-Cohen

On December 4, 2000, relator, Columbus Bar Association, filed an eight-count complaint charging that respondent, Kim M. Halliburton-Cohen of Grandview Heights, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0023389, violated the Code of Professional Responsibility by failing to account for and return client funds on several occasions. Respondent answered, and the matter was referred to a panel of the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline of the Supreme Court (“board”).

Based on stipulations of the parties and testimony at a hearing on June 25, 2001, the panel found that in January 1998, Carol…