People v. Lindemann, No. 02PDJ073. 9.25.02 Attorney Regulation. The Presiding Disciplinary Judge approved the parties’ Conditional Admission of Misconduct and suspended respondent Ward F. Lindemann, attorney registration number 19292, from the practice of law for a period of one year and one day, all stayed during a two-year period of probation with conditions. Respondent represented five separate clients, four involving dissolution of marriage proceedings and one involving modification of child support. In four matters, respondent failed to keep the clients reasonably informed and failed to comply with the clients’ requests for information in violation of Colo. RPC 1.4(a). In three matters, respondent neglected the clients’ legal matters by failing to return clients’ phone calls, did not keep appointments and failed to timely prepare a separation agreement, temporary orders, and a proposed visitation stipulation in a timely fashion in violation of Colo. RPC 1.3. In one matter he failed to return unearned funds to the client in violation of Colo. RPC 1.16(d); in another he failed to provide an accounting in violation of Colo. RPC 1.15(b). Respondent was ordered to pay restitution and the costs of the proceeding.