Mahoning County Bar Ass'n v. Michaels

Our ethical standards explicitly require that having undertaken representation, a lawyer should use proper care to safeguard the interests of his client. In all three instances which are the subject of the relator’s complaint, clients placed their trust and confidence in the respondent, and respondent, by neglecting their interests, betrayed that trust. To compound these violations, in one instance respondent transferred his client’s property to a purchaser and either did not receive the purchase price, or did receive it and failed to distribute the funds to the mortgagee and to his client…