Ohio Supreme Court holds suspended Lorain attorney in contempt of court

A Lorain attorney who already is suspended from practicing law now is in contempt with the Ohio Supreme Court.

The High Court announced the contempt ruling Aug. 8 after the justices said Jeffrey H. Weir II has not yet filed an affidavit of compliance in his June 5 suspension. The affidavit was due July 5.

Weir is required to serve six months of a year-long suspension, which stems from his failure to give one of his clients a check, as long as he complies with the High Court’s order to pay restitution within 60 days, complete a course on law office management, submit to an assessment by the Ohio Lawyers Assistance Program and comply with any of their recommendations and commit no further misconduct, according to the Supreme Court.

The suspension came following a December 2015 land dispute in which Weir’s client was to receive a $4,983 check, the High Court said.

After Weir received the check from the other party’s attorney, he misplaced it and often did not communicate with his client and failed to pay restitution to his client.

In May, Weir was in hot water with the High Court and was given 10 days to respond to a grievance case in which he’d been suspended and continued to practice.

That suspension was put in place after Weir failed to respond to an ethics complaint from the Lorain County Bar Association that he had failed in his representation of a man who was executor on the estate of his mother, failed a client while acting as an attorney on her bankruptcy case and failed a pair of clients in a property case.

In his May 13 response to the High Court’s order, Weir claimed he’d not been practicing law and he informed his clients of that fact.