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ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD v. O'BRIEN

No. 21-1410.

971 N.W.2d 584 (2022)

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD, Complainant, v. Brien P. O'BRIEN, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed March 18, 2022.

Amended March 21, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tara van Brederode , Lawrence F. Dempsey, IV , and Allison A. Schmidt , Des Moines, for complainant.

Brien P. O'Brien, Sioux City, pro se.

McDermott, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which all justices joined.

This attorney disciplinary matter presents the curious, but unfortunately not unheard of, circumstance of a lawyer who inexplicably "ghosts" his client in the middle of representation. Clients in these unfortunate situations, often anxious and always confused by the lawyer's repeated failures to respond, eventually figure out...

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