· 4/3/2002
Iowa Supreme Court Board of Professional Ethics & Conduct v. Lane
Citations
- 642 N.W.2d 296
- 2002 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 45
- 2002 WL 535414
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- noting that attorney could not take eighty hours to copy material from a treatise into his brief
- noting that attorney could not take eighty hours to copy material from a treatise into his brief
- \Mitigating factors alone do not overcome our responsibility to the public or to the legal profession.\
- noting, in imposing discipline, that respondent's conduct \jeopardized the integrity of the Bar and the public's trust in the legal profession\
- noting, in imposing discipline, that respondent’s conduct “jeopardized the integrity of the Bar and the public’s trust in the legal profession”
- imposing six-month license suspension when attorney requested excessive attorney fees for allegedly spending eighty hours to write a brief that he had plagiarized
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Judges: Streit
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