{"id":97162,"date":"2024-12-03T02:03:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T10:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2024\/12\/03\/ohio-lawyer-disbarred-after-stealing-nearly-a-million-dollars-from-clients\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T02:03:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T10:03:36","slug":"ohio-lawyer-disbarred-after-stealing-nearly-a-million-dollars-from-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2024\/12\/03\/ohio-lawyer-disbarred-after-stealing-nearly-a-million-dollars-from-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Lawyer Disbarred After Stealing Nearly A Million Dollars From Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not a good look for the profession.
\nThe post Ohio Lawyer Disbarred After Stealing Nearly A Million Dollars From Clients appeared first on Above the Law.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\"money<\/p>\n

No such thing as a free lunch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

There\u2019s a tradition of reading about lawyers getting a windfall of money around this time of year, but this one\u2019s a little different from the usual bonus announcement. This \u201cbonus\u201d announcement involves ~$900k and a disbarment. Dispatch<\/a> has coverage:<\/p>\n

\n

A Columbus attorney has been disbarred for multiple ethical violations, including charging excessive fees, stealing client money and falsifying bank documents, the Ohio Supreme Court said.<\/p>\n

Gregory Port, an estate planning attorney who practiced on Columbus\u2019 Northwest Side, was permanently disbarred on Wednesday, Nov. 27.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Not only did Port violate the code of conduct expected of a lawyer, the former Scoutsmaster betrayed something even deeper: his honor<\/a>! Port is expected to face sentencing for his actions on December 17th and will have to pay over $930k in restitution.<\/p>\n

Columbus Attorney Disbarred After Being Charged With Stealing More Than $900,000<\/a> [Dispatch]<\/p>\n

\"\"Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s<\/a>. \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim,\u00a0a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor<\/a>, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>\u00a0and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not a good look for the profession. The post Ohio Lawyer Disbarred After Stealing Nearly A Million Dollars From Clients appeared first on Above the Law. No such thing as a free lunch. There\u2019s a tradition of reading about lawyers getting a windfall of money around this time of year, but this one\u2019s a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":97163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law","category-legal_matters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/money-plate-GettyImages-1834450021-vraVZG.jpeg?fit=2121%2C1414&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}