Supreme Court of Florida

In attorney disciplinary proceedings involving allegations of misconduct arising from attorneys' entering into a secret "engagement agreement" with the DuPont Corporation while representing clients in Benlate cases against DuPont, a report recommending that respondent-attorney be found guilty of professional misconduct and recommending several sanctions is disapproved to the extent it recommended suspension, and instead respondent is disbarred and is ordered to disgorge over $2 million, plus interest.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/03/2007
• Published 05/03/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Kenneth Lawrence Marvin, Director of Lawyer Regulation, and James A.G. Davey, Jr., Bar Counsel, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, FL, for Complainant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Roland Raymond St. Louis, Jr., pro se, Coral Gables, FL, for Respondent.