Mahoning County Bar Ass'n v. Melnick

{¶ 1} Respondent, Robert Melnick of Salem, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0014788, was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1983.

{¶ 2} On December 6, 2004, relator, Mahoning County Bar Association, charged that respondent had notarized three affiants’ signatures without having witnessed them and had thereby violated DR 1-102(A)(4) (prohibiting a lawyer from engaging in conduct involving fraud, deceit, dishonesty, or misrepresentation). A panel of the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline heard the cause and, based on the parties’ stipulations and other evidence, found the…