A former Cleveland attorney, who is serving a four-year prison sentence and owes over $600,000 in restitution to vulnerable clients she stole from, was allowed to quickly and quietly resign in lieu of further disciplinary action.
That is, not without a lone dissent from Ohio Supreme Court Justice Pat Fischer, who criticized the court’s ongoing practice of accepting attorneys’ applications to resign from the practice of law when they have disciplinary action pending. The latest instance involved a solo practitioner with over 40 years of experience, Dorothea Jane Kingsbury, 70, who was convicted of misappropriating at least $750,000 from clients who were elderly or disabled.
