LORAIN — Former Lorain Law Director Mark Provenza is facing potential sanctions from the Ohio Supreme Court’s disciplinary arm for allegedly failing to provide legal services for two of his clients and then refusing to cooperate with the investigation into allegations against him.
According to a certified complaint filed by the
Lorain County Bar Association with the Board of Commissioners on
Grievances and Discipline last week, Provenza neglected his
responsibilities to the two clients earlier this year.
In
one instance Provenza is accused of taking $800 from Robin
Maxwell-Smith to file a divorce for her and then not doing any of the
work.
Maxwell-Smith paid Provenza $300 on Dec. 27, 2013,
for the divorce paperwork to be filed. That money should have been
deposited in Provenza’s trust account, where lawyers are supposed to
keep money from clients while cases are pending, but that never
happened, the complaint said.
Over the next few months,
Maxwell-Smith made several attempts to contact Provenza, but never had
any meaningful communication with him, although she did pay him another
$500 on Feb. 20. That money also wasn’t put into the trust account.
Provenza
told Maxwell-Smith to meet him in court March 31, but that day he
ignored text messages from her and only talked to her when she had him
paged by court staff at the Lorain County Justice Center.
Provenza
then told her “that he had not filed any divorce pleadings on her
behalf and had forgotten he told her to appear in court for a hearing,”
the complaint said.
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2 comments:
I pity his clients.
This lawyer Mark Provenza needs to be guardianized - ha! LOL!! Older folks who don't *crew people their clients are stripped of life as they knew it stripped of their dignity and their rights and assets every day around this sorry nation what is their crime? a lot of birthdays age caught up with them so the government steps cause they know better via the courts to control the so called free in this sorry nation.
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