Disciplinary Counsel v. Tomlan

{¶ 1} Respondent, John Richard Tomlan of St. Clairsville, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0007449, was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1983.

{¶ 2} The Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline recommends that we now indefinitely suspend respondent’s license to practice based on findings that he (1) without her informed consent, transferred an elderly client’s financial assets to joint and survivorship accounts in both of their names, (2) concealed estate proceeds in his possession after his client died, (3) unduly delayed performing his duties as executor of the client’s…