Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board v. Richard Scott Rhinehart

WATERMAN, Justice.

The Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board (Board) brought a two-count complaint against Richard Scott Rhinehart alleging he violated nine rules of professional conduct. The first count arose from the district court’s ruling, affirmed on appeal, that Rhinehart had committed extrinsic fraud responding to his wife’s discovery in his own protracted marital dissolution proceeding. The second count involved Rhinehart’s billing dispute with his clients in a residential construction defect case. The grievance commission applied issue preclusion to count one and found…