Butler County Bar Ass'n v. Portman

{¶ 1} Respondent, Clifford Scott Portman of Cincinnati, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0073390, was admitted to the Ohio bar in 2001.

{¶ 2} The Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline has recommended that we indefinitely suspend respondent’s license to practice, based on findings that he failed to refund unearned legal fees, applied for court-appointed-counsel fees for services for which he had already been paid, allowed his professional malpractice insurance to lapse without the required disclosures to clients, and failed to appropriately participate during the investigation of…