Toledo Bar Ass'n v. Fell

The board found that Fell (a specialist in the field of Workmen’s Compensation law), having understood that it had been the long established practice of the Industrial Commission to deny any claim for permanent-total disability benefits upon notice of the death of the claimant, deliberately withheld information concerning his client’s death prior to the hearing on the motion concerning the claim. The board concluded that Fell’s primary motive in withholding such information was to gain for himself a fee to which he was not entitled, but yet received.

DR 1-102(A) provides, in part:

“A lawyer…