Warren County Bar Ass'n v. Lieser

We approve the findings of fact, conclusions of law, and recommendation of the board. In each of these four instances, respondent received a retainer and then neglected the legal matter entrusted to him. In Disciplinary Counsel v. Sigall (1984), 14 Ohio St.3d 15, 17, 14 OBR 320, 321, 470 N.E.2d 886, 888, we found that such a practice was “tantamount to theft of that fee from the client.”

When we have found repeated failures to carry out entrusted legal matters, we have imposed the sanction of an indefinite suspension from the practice of law. Toledo Bar Assn. v. Anderson (1991), 62 Ohio St.3d…