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

How courts have described this case

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

• imposing a two-month suspension where the conduct involved converting retainers before completing the work
• defining professional neglect as “indifference and a consistent failure to perform those obligations that a lawyer has assumed, or a conscious disregard for the responsibilities a lawyer owes to a client”
• imposing a two-month suspension where the conduct involved converting retainers before completing the work
• failure to initiate appropriate legal proceedings adversely reflects on fitness to practice law and prejudices the administration of justice
• sixty-day suspension for neglect, trust account and accounting violations, and failure to cooperate, in light of mitigating factors
• sixty-day suspension for neglect, trust account and accounting violations, and failure to cooperate, in light of mitigating factors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).