Lawyer suspended based on Warren, Hamilton County cases

The Ohio Supreme Court has suspended lawyer Edward Vardiman Jr. for six months for his conduct in representing clients in Warren and Hamilton counties.

The court suspended Vardiman’s license to practice law for a year, but stayed six months of the punishment.

According to the opinion issued Wednesday, both cases involved ethical violations regarding signatures on documents.

In the Warren County case, Vardiman, who was also suspended briefly in 2007, signed — without her authority — the name of the wife of a man he was representing in a child support case to documents filed in the action.

The charges were brought against him by the Warren County Bar Association in 2014.

The justices voted 4-3 on the punishment, with three writing that they would not have stayed any of the suspension.

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