Ohio Reinstates Attorney Who Accessed Emails Without Authority

The Ohio Supreme Court has reinstated an attorney suspended for his unauthorized access to email accounts of several former colleagues in the wake of his termination from law firm employment.

The suspension

… it is ordered and adjudged by this court that pursuant to Gov.Bar R. V(12)(A)(3) and consistent with the opinion rendered herein, respondent, Brandon Louis Azman, Attorney Registration No. 0087246, last known business address in Arlington, Virginia, is suspended from the practice of law for a period of one year, with six months stayed on the conditions that he commit no further misconduct and that he pay the costs of these proceedings. It is further ordered that if respondent fails to comply with the conditions of the stay, the stay will be lifted, and he will serve the entire one-year suspension.

The misconduct is described in the report of the Board on Professional Responsibility and involved at least 20 such intrusions over a two-week  period in late August and early September 2013 using passwords he had learned while employed at his firm.

The attorney had stipulated to the misconduct. (Mike Frisch)