The Iowa Supreme Court waded into one of the state’s most highly publicized legal malpractice lawsuits and rejected the argument that violating the ethics rule prohibiting sexual relations with clients “forms a per se basis [for] legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty claims” (Stender v. Blessum, 2017 BL 205142, Iowa, 152016, 6/16/17).
The June 16 decision brought an end to a high-profile lawsuit against Anthony Zane Blessum, a former elected prosecutor who was suspended from practice for becoming romantically involved with a client and then badly beating her—in an assault overheard by 911 operators—when she confronted him ...
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