Case Name: Columbus Bar Association v. Blankenship
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1996-02-28
Citations: 74 Ohio St. 3d 586
Docket Number: No. 95-1200
Parties: Columbus Bar Association v. Blankenship.
Judges: Moyer, C.J., Douglas, Wright, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Pfeifer, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, Third Service
Volume: 74
Pages: 586–590

Head Matter:
Columbus Bar Association v. Blankenship.
[Cite as Columbus Bar Assn. v. Blankenship (1996), 74 Ohio St.3d 586.]
(No. 95-1200
Submitted November 15, 1995
Decided February 28, 1996.)
Schwartz, Kelm, Warren & Ramirez and Nelson E. Genshaft; Zeiger & Carpenter and Jeffrey A. Lipps; and Bruce A. Campbell, for relator.
R. Joshua Brown, for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Having reviewed the record, we concur in the board's findings and its recommendation. Relator's complaint was served upon respondent in October 1994, but respondent did not interpose a response until July 31, 1995, and then only at the last moment before us. As relator points out, "To allow the Respondent to ignore these proceedings and now to blithely suggest — ten months [later] — that the process begin again, would be to totally disregard the public and professional obligations of the disciplinary system." Moreover, respondent has repeatedly failed to perform legal services for which he accepted responsibility, misused client funds, and compromised his clients' legal interests.
Accordingly, we order that respondent be indefinitely suspended from the practice of law in Ohio. Costs taxed to respondent.
Judgment accordingly.
Moyer, C.J., Douglas, Wright, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Pfeifer, JJ., concur.
Cook, J., dissents and would disbar.