Cincinnati Bar Ass'n v. Mid-South Estate Planning, L.L.C.

{¶ 1} Relator, Cincinnati Bar Association, filed a complaint charging that respondents, Senior Estate Planning Services of America, Inc. (“SEPSA”) and Robert D. Tanner Jr., in association with respondent Mid-South Estate Planning, L.L.C. (“Mid-South”), engaged in the unauthorized practice of law by soliciting Ohio residents for the sale of legal instruments prepared by laypersons, including living trusts and other estate-planning devices. The Board on the Unauthorized Practice of Law concluded that both SEPSA and Tanner had practiced law in violation of Ohio licensure requirements and…