Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board v. Plumb

HECHT, Justice.

The Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board alleged the respondent, Van Plumb, violated several ethical rules by divulging a client’s secrets or confidences, neglecting clients’ cases, attempting to persuade a client to withdraw an ethical complaint, failing to respond to a complaint filed by the board, failing to provide responses to the board’s discovery requests, failing to provide clients with an accounting for unearned retainers, failing to deposit unearned fees in a trust account, engaging in dishonesty or misrepresentation in attempting to cover up his failure to…