Dayton Bar Association v. Swift

{¶ 1} Respondent, Ben Musa Swift of Dayton, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0065745, was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1995.

{¶ 2} On March 8, 2013, a probable-cause panel of the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline certified a complaint against Swift to the board. In that complaint, relator, Dayton Bar Association, charged Swift with violating six Rules of Professional Conduct based on a pattern of overbilling for work he performed as a court-appointed attorney in the juvenile and general courts of four separate counties.

{¶ 3} At the hearing, the panel heard…