Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board v. Piazza

How courts have described this case

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• noting attorneys accepting fee advances must deposit fees into trust account and provide contemporaneous accounting for withdrawals
• distinguishing between “general retainer,” where fee is earned when paid whether or not lawyer actually performs services for client, and “special retainer,” which pays for specific service and remains client’s property until earned
• attorney received public reprimand for failing to place advance fee payment in trust account and to provide an accounting
• attorney received public reprimand for failing to place advance fee payment in trust account and to provide an accounting
• discussing the concept of a “flat fee”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).