Supreme Court of Florida

In Florida Bar's complaint against an attorney, arising from the attorney's representation of a client-firm against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a referee's report recommending the attorney be guilty of professional misconduct and suspended from the practice of law for eighteen months is affirmed in part and vacated in part where: 1) the referee's findings more than amply support the recommendations of guilt as to the conflict-of-interest claims as well as to claims of misrepresentation; and 2) referee's sanction recommendation is vacated and instead a three-year suspension is imposed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/10/2010
• Published 06/10/2010

Judges

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, and Kenneth Lawrence Marvin, Staff Counsel, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Florida, and Arlene Kalish Sankel, Bar Counsel, The Florida Bar, Miami, Florida, for Complainant


• For Appellees:
  
• William Sumner Scott, pro se, Miami, Florida, for Respondent