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CINCINNATI BAR ASSN. v. HATFIELD

No. 96-1966.

77 Ohio St.3d 231 (1997)

CINCINNATI BAR ASSOCIATION ET AL. v. HATFIELD.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided January 15, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara Knotts Barden and Frederick Orin Kiel, for relator Cincinnati Bar Association.

Bennett Alan Manning and Dennis Lee Wittman, for relator Butler County Bar Association.

Per Curiam.

We have previously said that our Disciplinary Rules require that a lawyer not intentionally fail to carry out his contract with his client or cause damage to the client. Columbus Bar Assn. v. Clark (1996), 76 Ohio St.3d 363, 365, 667 N.E.2d 1182, 1183. For that reason we have indefinitely suspended lawyers who have lied to their clients and deceived them into believing that their interests were...

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