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

How courts have described this case

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• stating professional neglect involves failure to perform those obligations that a lawyer has assumed
• imposing two-year suspension for neglect and other serious misconduct in six client matters
• imposing a two-year suspension where neglect included failure to timely file a petition, failure to comply with rules of appellate procedure, and failure to comply with notices of deficient filings
• finding an attorney committed neglect because in five different appeals he “failed to comply with the rules of appellate procedure, as well as the subsequent notices to cure the defaults”
• finding an attorney committed neglect because in five different appeals he “failed to comply with the rules of appellate procedure, as well as the subsequent notices to cure the defaults”
• 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”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).