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CINCINNATI BAR ASSN. v. HOVEY

No. 96-2788.

78 Ohio St.3d 495 (1997)

CINCINNATI BAR ASSOCIATION v. HOVEY.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided June 4, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry E. Menninger and Naomi C. Dallob, for relator.

James N. Perry, for respondent.

Per Curiam.

The principle of loyalty is fundamental to the attorney-client relationship and underlies the conflict-of-interest provisions of the Code of Professional Ethics. Our Ethical Considerations provide in EC 5-3 that a lawyer should not "make improper use of his professional relationship to influence his client to invest in an enterprise in which the lawyer is interested." These considerations of loyalty require that all transactions between a lawyer...

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