Disciplinary Counsel v. Wallace

{¶ 1} Respondent, Paul Lawrence Wallace of Columbus, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0010369, was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1980. We suspended him from the practice of law for six months in May 2000, based on his deliberate attempts to mislead his client into believing that the client’s civil case was pending for more than a year after the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio had dismissed it. Disciplinary Counsel v. Wallace, 89 Ohio St.3d 113, 729 N.E.2d 343 (2000) (“Wallace I ”). We denied his application for reinstatement in February 2001 because…