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

I respectfully dissent from the majority selection of a sanction. It seems inescapable to me that the respondent deliberately attempted to mislead her clients’ creditors by notarizing a document with the wrong date. The record is clear that she believed at the time that the date was critical to her clients’ rights and to those of their creditors. On this record I cannot believe the incorrect date was placed there in error.

I disagree that the facts here square with those in Committee on Professional Ethics & Conduct v. Roberts, 312 N.W.2d 556 (Iowa 1981). In Roberts the misconduct was serious…