Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board v. Lesyshen

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• comparing an attorney who neglects his clients to “a surgeon who, without transferring responsibility, drops his scalpel and abandons his patient in the course of an operation” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “To simply wait for the court to dismiss the case for lack of prosecution is neglect, inappropriate, and unethical.”
• “[Sjimply because a client does not want to pursue the case does not relieve the attorney from taking steps necessary to end the matter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).