Lake County Bar Ass'n v. Speros

We have reviewed the record and concur in the board’s findings that respondent violated DR 1-102(A)(4) and 7-102(A)(5). We also concur in the sanction recommended by the board and, thus, decline to impose the public reprimand now urged in respondent’s objections.

During oral argument, respondent claimed that his misconduct was most analogous to the disciplinary infractions committed in Disciplinary Counsel v. Schumann (1994), 71 Ohio St.3d 101, 642 N.E.2d 347, and Disciplinary Counsel v. Gwyn (1994), 71 Ohio St.3d 8, 640 N.E.2d 1141, in which we publicly reprimanded attorneys for their…