Committee on Professional Ethics & Conduct of the Iowa State Bar Ass'n v. O'Callaghan

SNELL, Justice.

The complaint in this attorney disciplinary proceeding charged that the respondent, James A. O’Callaghan, commingled his personal funds with funds of his clients in his office trust account for several months in 1987. A division of the Grievance Commission found that commingling occurred and that a misappropriation of client funds took place. Accordingly, the commission recommended O’Callaghan’s license to practice law in Iowa be suspended for not less than three months.

As in all attorney disciplinary cases, we review de novo the record made before the commission. Iowa…