FILING AN ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST AN IOWA LAWYER A complaint form may be obtained here or by contacting the Board by telephone at 515-348-4680. In addition to a clear, written statement describing the alleged unethical conduct, copies of important documents should be attached.
For complaints about any other executive branch administrative law judge, you must contact the agency that employs the judge. For complaints against a federal judge, contact the clerk of the court of appeals for that circuit or applicable national court.
A claim of malpractice may exist if your lawyer exhibited negligence in your representation. If your lawyer's negligence caused you to suffer harm or a less advantageous outcome or settlement in your case, you may have a claim to sue your lawyer for professional negligence.
It can be when a judge is making natural or inconsiderate behaviour in making irrelevant or insensitive statements or comments which doesn't go by rules of what judge is expected to do in line with judicial duty.
The Iowa Civil Rights Commission is a neutral, fact-finding law enforcement agency. The mission of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission is to end discrimination within the state of Iowa. To achieve this goal, the ICRC must effectively enforce the Iowa Civil Rights Act.
Perhaps the most common kinds of complaints against lawyers involve delay or neglect. This doesn't mean that occasionally you've had to wait for a phone call to be returned. It means there has been a pattern of the lawyer's failing to respond or to take action over a period of months.
Legal malpractice is a type of negligence in which a lawyer does harm to his or her client. Typically, this concerns lawyers acting in their own interests, lawyers breaching their contract with the client, and, one of the most common cases of legal malpractice, is when lawyers fail to act on time for clients.
If your attorney is not experienced or efficient, they may have missed a deadline or made another mistake and aren't willing to confess their error. There could also be some bad news that is entirely outside of the attorney's control.