IOWA SUPREME COURT BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS & CONDUCT v. KELLY

No. 98-31.

577 N.W.2d 648 (1998)

IOWA SUPREME COURT BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS & CONDUCT, Complainant, v. Charles R. KELLY, Jr., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 22, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Terry D. Parsons of Olsen & Parsons, Cedar Falls, for respondent.

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


HARRIS, Justice.

The legal profession at large is often blamed for the dilatory practices of a few lawyers. There have always been reports of busy but disorganized lawyers who take on a task, leave it undone, and cover up their omission by inventing artful excuses. Although such habits are by no means confined to our profession, a measure of the criticism leveled at us is justified. The present lawyer discipline proceeding is almost a classic example.

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