Cuyahoga County Bar Ass'n v. Muttalib

I agree with the findings and conclusions of the board, but would disbar respondent as the panel recommended. As the panel found, respondent performed “practically no services” on behalf of the three clients named in the relator’s complaint. And when respondent’s inaction prompted these clients to try to contact him for an explanation, respondent engaged in “deceitful” misrepresentations and/or “totally disappeared,” retaining over $4,000 in advances for costs and in unearned fees. The panel also found that respondent committed illegal conduct involving moral turpitude by engaging in bigamy.

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