Toledo Bar Ass'n v. McCreery

In Columbus Bar Assn. v. Tuttle (1975), 41 Ohio St. 2d 183, 184-85, this court stated:

“As the Supreme Court of California so cogently stated, ‘The rule against commingling “was adopted to provide against the probability in some cases, the possibility in many cases, and the danger in all cases that such commingling will result in the loss of clients’ money.” ’ Clark v. State Bar (1952), 39 Cal. 2d 161, 168, 246 P. 2d 1.

“It has been the consistent practice of this, court in recent years to impose a penalty of indefinite suspension or of disbarment in cases involving commingling of funds.

“Such…