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

How courts have described this case

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• interpreting DR 1-102(A)(4) and stating “[t]he key question is whether the effect of the lawyer’s conduct is to mislead rather than to inform.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting the “key question” under DR 1-102(A)(4) “is whether the effect of the lawyer’s conduct is ‘to mislead rather than to inform’ ” (quoting Comm. on Prof'l Ethics & Conduct v. Baudino, 452 N.W.2d 455, 458 (Iowa 1990))
• thirty-day suspension for taking premature payment of probate fees without court authorization and securing extraordinary fee for small estate that was not justified
• thirty-day suspension warranted for improper taking of probate fee and misrepresenting circumstances to court
• lawyer’s accounting in probate attempted to conceal unauthorized disbursement of fees

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).