In re Conrad

{¶ 1} The applicant, David Louis Conrad of Marysville, Ohio, applied to take the Ohio bar examination in February 2005 and July 2005. The admissions committee of the Union County Bar Association recommended that his character and fitness be approved for the July 2005 examination, but this court’s Board of Commissioners on Character and Fitness elected, pursuant to its authority under Gov.Bar R. I(10)(B)(2)(e), to investigate the applicant’s character and fitness to practice law in Ohio.

{¶ 2} A three-member panel of the board held a hearing in December 2005. The applicant testified at the…