Cleveland Bar Ass'n v. Fox

{¶ 1} Respondent, John P. Fox of Lakewood, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0031742, was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1970. On August 12, 2002, relator, Cleveland Bar Association, filed a complaint charging respondent with professional misconduct. A panel of the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline considered the cause on the parties’ comprehensive stipulations, including a proposed sanction for agreed-upon misconduct.

{¶ 2} Adopting the parties’ stipulations of fact and misconduct, the panel found that in June 1995, respondent settled a case on a client’s behalf for $93,000. The…