Supreme Court of Florida

In the Florida Bar's complaint against an attorney, arising from events in the course of acting as attorney and closing agent in a real estate transaction, the matter is remanded to the referee for a recommendation as to the appropriate discipline as the attorney violated Florida Bar 4-5.3(b) by allowing a nonlawyer, whom she neither employed, supervised, nor controlled, to have signatory authority over an escrow account she opened to handle real estate closings, resulting in misappropriation by that nonlawyer of funds held in trust in the escrow account.

Appellate Information

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

Judges

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director, and Kenneth Lawrence Marvin, Staff Counsel, The Florida Bar, Tallahassee, Florida, and Lorraine Christine Hoffman, Bar Counsel, The Florida Bar, Sunrise, Florida, for the Complainant Kevin P. Tynan of Richardson and Tynan, P.L.C., Tamarac, Florida, for Respondent