Ohio State Bar Assn. v. Heath

{¶ 1} Relator, Ohio State Bar Association, charged respondent, Gary Allan Heath of Canal Winchester, Ohio, with the unauthorized practice of law, alleging that he (1) prepared documents threatening legal action on behalf of a friend as a means to settle a dispute over the friend’s use of a natural-gas well and (2) prepared motions and other legal papers for the friend to file in a related criminal prosecution. Finding that respondent practiced law in violation of Ohio licensure requirements, the Board on the Unauthorized Practice of Law recommends that we enjoin him from committing further…