COMMITTEE ON PROF. ETHICS & CON. v. OTTESEN

No. 94-1237.

525 N.W.2d 865 (1994)

COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND CONDUCT OF The IOWA STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, Complainant, v. James L. OTTESEN, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 21, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman G. Bastemeyer and Charles L. Harrington, Des Moines, for complainant.

James L. Ottesen, Davenport, pro se.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and LARSON, LAVORATO, ANDREASEN, and TERNUS, JJ.


HARRIS, Justice.

This attorney disciplinary case presents only the question of an appropriate sanction, and the answer is close to automatic. There is no place in our profession for lawyers who convert funds entrusted to them. It is almost axiomatic that we revoke licenses of lawyers who do so. The attorney involved here took client trust funds and converted them to his own use. We find no reason to depart from the policy demanding revocation.

Since his admission...

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