Geauga County Bar Ass'n v. Patterson

{¶ 1} Respondent, David Nelson Patterson of Willoughby, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0015280, was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1964. On December 23, 1980, we publicly reprimanded respondent for violating the following Disciplinary Rules: DR 2-103(B) (barring a lawyer from compensating or giving something of value to a person to recommend or secure the lawyer’s employment, or as a reward for having made a recommendation resulting in his employment), 5-101(A) (prohibiting a lawyer from accepting employment if the exercise of professional judgment on behalf of a client will be or reasonably…