I know disbarment cases are a dime a dozen, but this one has pretty “impressive” facts:
Ohio’s Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to disbar Cincinnati attorney Lisa Avirov Stemper for what it called “a 17-year campaign of misconduct.”
Stemper, a graduate of the law school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, practiced as a lawyer for at least six years after her law license was suspended, even convincing a Tri-County law firm to hire her. Stemper also forged the signatures of two clients on legal documents, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled.
In a federal court case, Stemper “illegally, dishonestly” lied to another lawyer, saying Stemper’s two clients agreed to pay a $7,000 bill and then she forged her clients’ signatures confirming the clients’ liability for that money.
Her law license is permanently revoked for the latest misdeeds, but she has had a long line of infractions that began with “relatively minor administrative reporting infractions and leading up to deceit, forgery and practicing law without a license for years in defiance of our order,” Supreme Court justices wrote in Wednesday’s decision.
Seventeen years? Details here from The Cincinnati Post, or read the Court’s opinion here.
Ohio’s Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to disbar Cincinnati attorney Lisa Avirov Stemper for what it called “a 17-year campaign of misconduct.”
Stemper, a graduate of the law school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, practiced as a lawyer for at least six years after her law license was suspended, even convincing a Tri-County law firm to hire her. Stemper also forged the signatures of two clients on legal documents, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled.
In a federal court case, Stemper “illegally, dishonestly” lied to another lawyer, saying Stemper’s two clients agreed to pay a $7,000 bill and then she forged her clients’ signatures confirming the clients’ liability for that money.
Her law license is permanently revoked for the latest misdeeds, but she has had a long line of infractions that began with “relatively minor administrative reporting infractions and leading up to deceit, forgery and practicing law without a license for years in defiance of our order,” Supreme Court justices wrote in Wednesday’s decision.
Seventeen years? Details here from The Cincinnati Post, or read the Court’s opinion here.
I know disbarment cases are a dime a dozen, but this one has pretty “impressive” facts:
Ohio’s Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to disbar Cincinnati attorney Lisa Avirov Stemper for what it called “a 17-year campaign of misconduct.”
Stemper, a graduate of the law school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, practiced as a lawyer for at least six years after her law license was suspended, even convincing a Tri-County law firm to hire her. Stemper also forged the signatures of two clients on legal documents, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled.
In a federal court case, Stemper “illegally, dishonestly” lied to another lawyer, saying Stemper’s two clients agreed to pay a $7,000 bill and then she forged her clients’ signatures confirming the clients’ liability for that money.
Her law license is permanently revoked for the latest misdeeds, but she has had a long line of infractions that began with “relatively minor administrative reporting infractions and leading up to deceit, forgery and practicing law without a license for years in defiance of our order,” Supreme Court justices wrote in Wednesday’s decision.
Seventeen years? Details here from The Cincinnati Post, or read the Court’s opinion here.
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