Complaints against 2 Valley lawyers certified to Ohio Supreme Court

YOUNGSTOWN

A probable-cause panel has certified complaints against two Boardman lawyers to the Ohio Supreme Court’s Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline in Columbus.

The lawyers, Heidi A. Hanni and Bruce Martin Broyles, have been asked to file answers to the complaints and are entitled to a hearing on the complaints.

The Mahoning County Bar Association filed the complaint against Hanni, which alleges she failed to appear four times for scheduled office appointments in 2013 and 2014 and twice for scheduled court hearings in 2014 in a Columbiana County child-custody dispute, without providing good reasons for not showing up in court.

In the other recently certified case, the top court’s disciplinary counsel alleges that Broyles represented a foreclosing bank in 2011, then represented the couple whose home that bank was foreclosing on, the following year in the same court case.

Read more about the complaints in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.