In Re Wimmershoff

This is an attorney regulation case. A hearing board found that the attorney-respondent, Nicholas A. Wimmershoff, charged his client an unreasonable fee, deposited part of this unreasonable fee into his operating account (although it had not been fully earned), failed to adequately explain the basis of his fee to the client, and violated the rules governing contingent fee agreements. A hearing panel of our former grievance committee 1 approved the board's findings and its recommendation that Wimmershoff be publicly censured and be required to disgorge the unreasonable part of the fee to his…