ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD v. SAUNDERS

No. 18-1392.

919 N.W.2d 760 (2018)

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD, Complainant, v. Lonnie B. SAUNDERS, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed November 9, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tara van Brederode and Wendell J. Harms , Des Moines, for complainant.

Lonnie B. Saunders, Spirit Lake, pro se.


This attorney disciplinary proceeding requires us to address the recurring problem of attorneys who take premature probate fees. Before work was completed on an estate — in fact, over a year before the final report was filed and the court costs were paid — an attorney billed and collected the second half of his...

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