In re Admonition Issued in Panel File No. 94-24

OPINION

The respondent, who was admitted to the practice of law in Minnesota on September 3, 1982, and whose office is situated in North Dakota, appeals an admonition issued by the Director of the Office of Professional Responsibility and affirmed by a panel of the Lawyers Professional Responsibility Board. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

In June of 1991 a client engaged the respondent to represent her in a personal injury action based on a fall which occurred outside a restaurant on April 28, 1991. The parties entered into a contingent fee arrangement which provided that the lawyer…