Opinion ID: 2569696
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Heading: The Holm Complaint

Text: Sachse was retained by Craig E. Holm in 1991 to prosecute civil claims made by Holm against his former employer. Sachse filed a petition in Johnson County District Court on December 21, 1993. On December 19, 1995, summary judgment was granted to the employer individually, but was denied with regard to the employer's corporation. On August 22, 1996, a consent judgment was entered against the corporate defendant. Sachse advised Holm that the defendant corporation had no assets. Holm continued to believe that the corporation had assets which should be pursued. Holm wrote Sachse two letters, dated September 10 and 29, 1996, complaining about not receiving information from Sachse regarding the case. Again, on October 10 and 20, 1996, Holm wrote letters to Sachse requesting information on his case. After the October 20, 1996, letter, there were numerous telephone calls between Sachse and Holm. On November 10, 1996, Holm wrote Sachse stating that he had obtained other counsel to handle his case. Holm made numerous requests to Sachse to return the documents he had given to Sachse. Eventually Holm's son went to Sachse's office, and Sachse gave him what Sachse described as all of the file. According to Holm, there were numerous documents which were not returned by Sachse. Holm made a complaint to the Disciplinary Administrator regarding Sachse's lack of communication and lack of progress on the case. Sachse admitted the above facts in his answer to the complaint.