Disciplinary Counsel v. Ward

{¶ 1} Respondent, Richard Grove Ward of Cincinnati, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0037613, was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1986. Relator, disciplinary counsel, charged Ward with violating the Disciplinary Rules of the former Code of Professional Conduct by accepting employment from a client whose interests were substantially related to and directly adverse to those of a long-term client of his law firm, using the confidences and secrets of his firm’s long-term client for the benefit of others and to that client’s detriment, and placing funds belonging to a second client in…