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

HARRIS, Justice.

We must decide, on a de novo review of the report of our grievance commission, the appropriate action in this attorney disciplinary proceeding. We are convinced the license must be revoked.

The respondent, Robert James Green, does not dispute the commission’s carefully considered report. Respondent was 28 years old at the time of the hearing. Following his admission to the bar in August 1977 he never engaged in the active practice of law. At the time of the occurrences which gave rise to this proceeding he was living in a small Iowa town, working as a self-employed painter.

The…