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ATTY. DISCIPLINARY BD. v. LIPSKI

No. 24-1124.

14 N.W.3d 751 (2024)

IOWA SUPREME COURT ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD, Complainant, v. Patricia Jean LIPSKI, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed December 13, 2024.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tara van Brederode, Allison A. Schmidt, and Alexis W. Grove for complainant.

Alexander E. Wonio and David L. Brown of Hansen, McClintock & Riley, Des Moines, for respondent.

McDermott, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which Christensen, C.J., and Waterman, Mansfield, and Oxley, JJ., joined. Oxley, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Christensen, C.J., and Waterman, J., joined. McDonald, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which May, J., joined.

This attorney disciplinary matter presents a failure in our attempts at progressive discipline to prevent a lawyer from continuing to miss filing deadlines in appeals. In the underlying termination-of-parental-rights case giving rise to this disciplinary matter, we dismissed a mother's appeal after her lawyer failed to timely...

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