Tales From The Gulag

The Iowa Supreme Court has links to a number of documents relating to proposals to revise Iowa’s attorney advertising rules. The most recent documents consist of 47 pages of comments on the proposed rules.

My friend Norman Bastemeyer, the former Administrator to the Iowa Supreme Court Board of Professional Ethics, used to refer to Iowa as the “Advertising Gulag”because it has the most restrictive (and likely unconstitutional) rules of any jurisdiction. Is that about to change? (Mike Frisch)