In re Disciplinary Action Against Villanueva

The Director of the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility filed a petition for disciplinary action, alleging that respondent Israel Esquivel Villanueva, an attorney licensed in Minnesota as a foreign legal consultant, committed professional misconduct by misappropriating clients' funds, engaging in the unauthorized practice of law, neglecting client matters, failing to communicate with clients, failing to refund unearned fees, failing to adequately supervise nonlawyer assistants, forging a client's signature on a legal document filed with a court, falsely representing that he was…