Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Ass'n v. Brown-Daniels

{¶ 1} Respondent, Barbara Charmagne Brown-Daniels of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0055655, was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1991. Relator, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, charged Brown- Daniels with professional misconduct in a five-count complaint filed on April 12, 2010.

{¶ 2} Although Brown-Daniels was served with the complaint by certified mail on April 16, 2010, she did not timely file an answer. Relator moved for default on May 16, 2011, and on June 8, 2011, Brown-Daniels moved the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline for leave…