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

This opinion is the result of our review, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 118.11, of a Grievance Commission recommendation that respondent attorney, Allan H. Rauch, be suspended from practice. The case was heard by the Twenty-Sixth Division of the Grievance Commission (the commission).

The commission found on very persuasive proof that respondent, who was executor and residuary beneficiary of the estate of his uncle, delayed funding a testamentary trust established under his uncle’s will for nearly seven years. The gift in trust was to respondent’s son in the amount of $5000. Respondent, with…