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By Beacon Journal staff
The Ohio Supreme Court has suspended the law license of an Akron attorney accused of mismanaging client bank accounts and failing to notify his customers that his malpractice insurance had lapsed.
POSTED: 12:00 p.m. EDT, May 28, 2009
Lawyer Thomas M. McNerney Sr. cannot practice law for one year, according to the state court. A second year of the suspension was stayed.
According to a Supreme Court news release today, McNerney failed ''to segregate funds he held in trust for clients in a separate bank account or to keep complete records tracking disbursements of those funds.''
Instead, he maintained a single account in which his money was mingled with client trust funds, and no individual records on the account we kept.
McNerney also failed to tell his clients that his malpractice insurance had lapsed and he failed to comply with registration requirements in 2007, the court said.
McNerney has been licensed as an attorney since 2003.