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

How courts have described this case

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

• revoking attorney’s license for stealing client funds, failing to cooperate in the attorney disciplinary investigation, and lying to clients
• finding it “troubling that [an attorney] ... continually shifted the blame for her misdeeds” to other people and events, including “the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001”
• “This burden is less than proof beyond a reasonable doubt, but more than the preponderance standard required in the usual civil case.”
• “This burden is less than proof beyond a 14 reasonable doubt, but more than the preponderance standard required in the usual civil case.”
• revocation ordered as sanction for misappropriation of funds motivated in part by gambling addiction
• “[The attorney’s] actions clearly warrant revocation . . . . [Attorney] stole client funds.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).