Arrested under suspicion of drunken driving in 2013, an Iowa family law attorney tried to consult with a criminal defense lawyer before taking a Breathalyzer test to determine his alcohol…
An unusual civil rights suit filed by a poker pro and a friend claims Iowa State Patrol officers carried out illegal traffic stops in an effort to collect cash for…
An Iowa judge has been suspended without pay for 30 days because she showed up intoxicated at the courthouse at which she worked one day during May 2012.
An Iowa man who had been embroiled for years in a property tax dispute with Jackson County officials died Tuesday of a gunshot wound at the conclusion of a government…
The Iowa Supreme Court has turned down a proposal to eliminate the bar exam for graduates of the state’s two law schools, but it is still considering changes to the…
An Illinois lawyer has been reprimanded in Iowa as a result of a discovery dispute in which he billed his corporate client for sanctions stemming from his conduct.
Convicted in March of disorderly conduct, an Iowa lawyer is now facing a new criminal case in which he is accused of spray-painting the words “GUILTY” and “JUSTICE” on the…
A defendant in an Iowa drug case who insisted on representing himself at trial and then apparently became frustrated and misbehaved when he couldn’t figure out how to examine a…
An Iowa couple say they were told by their lawyer to return the baby they planned to adopt to his birth mother. They did so—and then saw their worst nightmare…
A proposal to nix the Iowa bar examination, as far as graduates of in-state law schools are concerned, has met with a mixed reception from the state’s attorneys.
The Iowa Supreme Court has dismissed a suit that claimed Drake University’s law school discriminated on the basis of disability by barring from class a dog being trained by a…
Some 300 elderly and disabled residents of two apartment buildings in Des Moines, Iowa, have won an agreement to pay a $2.45 million settlement in a class action over bedbugs.
A $900,000 jury award in an employment discrimination case, including $600,000 in punitive damages, has been reversed by a federal appeals court because a lawyer for the plaintiff during closing…