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

MeGIVERIN, Chief Justice.

The main question here is what action is appropriate upon our de novo review of the report of our Grievance Commission in this attorney disciplinary proceeding involving respondent Dennis D. Peterson. We revoke respondent’s license to practice law in Iowa.

I. Background, facts and 'proceedings. Dennis D. Peterson has at various times been licensed to practice law in our courts and has maintained a law practice in Forest City.

Beginning in the early 1980s and continuing until the early 1990s, Peterson seriously mishandled several of his clients’ affairs. We briefly…