In Re Hefron

DISCIPLINARY ACTION

Attorney William K. Hefron agreed to represent a client on an hourly basis to recover assets belonging to an estate. Upon learning that substantial assets could be easily recovered, he insisted the client sign a new fee agreement under which the respondent would receive a significant percentage of the value of the recovered assets, as well as a percentage of the value of the estate. For this professional misconduct, we suspend the respondent from the practice of law in Indiana for six months.

Having been admitted to the bar in this state in 1989, the respondent is subject to…