Columbus Bar Assn. v. Watson

{¶ 1} Respondent, David Charles Watson Jr. of Columbus, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0025989, was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in 1985. On May 2, 2011, relator, Columbus Bar Association, filed a three-count complaint charging Watson with multiple violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct in his representation of three separate clients.

{¶ 2} A panel of the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline conducted a hearing at which it received numerous exhibits and heard testimony from relator’s investigator, Watson, Watson’s partner, Watson’s psychiatrist, one of the…