Attorney Discipline
Disciplinary Counsel v. William Lawrence Summers, Case no. 2011-0464
Cuyahoga County
The Board of Commissioners on Grievances & Discipline has recommended that the license of Mayfield Heights attorney William L. Summers be suspended for six months and that Summers be ordered to make restitution of $15,000 to the family of a client from whom the board found he collected an excessive fee prior to withdrawing from the client’s criminal case before it came to trial.