The Iowa Supreme Court has suspended the license of a Des Moines attorney accused of incompetence and “fleecing” her clients.
In July 2025, the Grievance Commission of the Iowa Supreme Court recommended the court revoke the law license of attorney Valerie Cramer. The commission alleged Cramer had falsely accused “judges and court reporters and the rest of the judiciary of the worst kind of corruption,” and had intentionally misled the courts and other counsel while “taking advantage of vulnerable and unsophisticated clients.”
The panel alleged Cramer was “a danger to the public,” lacked a basic understanding of the law and was “basically fleecing” her clients through inflated legal bills while peddling an “outlandish conspiracy theory” about the judiciary…