Iowa Supreme Court Board of Professional Ethics & Conduct v. Hughes

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• holding court is not bound by the recommendation of the Commission, but will respectfully consider it
• imposing a public reprimand for instructing her client to disobey a court order for drug testing
• distinguishing orders that are void because court lacks subject matter jurisdiction from orders that are erroneous because of insufficiency of evidence to support them; erroneous orders do not undermine court's subject matter jurisdiction
• imposing public reprimand when attorney advised client to ignore court order to obtain a substance abuse evaluation and declining to impose suspension because of the attorney’s unblemished record and respectful and candid manner in dealing with the court
• attorney’s advice to his client to ignore court’s order because he questioned its validity warranted public reprimand
• where lawyer advised client to ignore court order to obtain a substance abuse evaluation, he violated DR 7-106(A) (lawyer has a duty to obey a court order and not to advise a client to ignore it

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