Supreme Court of Florida

In attorney disciplinary proceedings involving alleged misconduct in handling a personal injury suit, a report recommending that an attorney be diverted to the Florida Bar's Practice and Professionalism Enhancement Program and that he be directed to attend the Bar's Ethics School at his expense is approved as to the facts found below, but diversion is not appropriate as the attorney's conduct violated Rules Regulating the Florida Bar 3-4.3 and the misconduct was more than "minor." Instead a public reprimand by the Board of Governors of The Florida Bar and participation in the Bar's practice and professionalism program on the terms recommended by the referee are found to be the appropriate discipline.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/24/2007
• Published 05/24/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, Kenneth Lawrence Marvin, Director of Lawyer Regulation, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, FL, and Alan Anthony Pascal, Bar Counsel, The Florida Bar, Fort Lauderdale, FL, for Complainant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kevin P. Tynan of Richardson and Tynan, PLC, Tamarac, FL, for Respondent.