Cleveland Bar Assn. v. Slavin

{¶ 1} Respondent, Jeffrey F. Slavin of Cleveland, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0002657, was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1974. The Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline recommends that we suspend respondent’s license to practice for one year, but conditionally stay the last six months of the suspension, based on findings that he lost a client’s case by failing to file a complaint within the statute-of-limitations period and then tried to conceal the loss by telling the client that the case had been settled and paying the “settlement” himself. We accept the…