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Date Posted: January 23, 2010 Action Line Complaint: Elizabeth Marie Goins Category: Lawyers
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Address
14733 Huntcliff Park Way
Orlando
Florida, County: Orange
 Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Suspended for one year, effective 30 days from a Sept. 24 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2002) Upon termination of representation of a client, Goins failed to communicate and return the client\'s personal documents. In early 2008, Goins left her practice without notifying the former client. She also failed to notify The Florida Bar of her change of address. In another case, Goins was paid to represent a client but she failed to perform services and she failed to communicate with him. In both instances, Goins neglected to respond to the Bar\'s inquiries regarding the matters. (Case SC09-36) |
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Date Posted: January 23, 2010 Action Line Complaint: E. Lebron Free Category: Lawyers
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Address
4773 Berwyn Court
Palm Harbor
Florida, County: Pinellas
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Publicly reprimanded following a Sept. 17 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1975) Free is further ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $2,000 to one client and $3,500 to another client. Free accepted retainers to represent clients in separate cases. He did not perform all the work and he neglected to return several calls to clients. (Case No. SC09-643) |
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Date Posted: January 23, 2010 Action Line Complaint: Daniel Henry Fox Category: Lawyers
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Address
2750 N.E. 185th St., Unit 302
Aventura
Florida, County: Miami/ Dade
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Disbarred effective immediately, following a Sept. 3 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2003) Fox issued trust account checks, which were returned due to insufficient funds; he failed to maintain his trust account and he abandoned his representation of clients in connection with residential real estate loan modifications. (Case No. SC09-1575) |
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Date Posted: January 23, 2010 Action Line Complaint: Johanne Foster Category: Lawyers
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Address
11110 W. Oakland Park Blvd., #342
Sunrise
Florida, County: Broward
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Publicly reprimanded following a Sept. 17 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2002) Foster committed conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice. She prepared one deed giving ownership of certain real property to a company and later prepared a warranty deed from that company to a mortgage lender, including additional property which was never owned by the company. (Case No. SC09-838)
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Date Posted: January 23, 2010 Action Line Complaint: Jay Charles Floyd Category: Lawyers
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Address
P.O. Box 840012
Saint Augustine
Florida, County: St. Johns
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Disbarred for five years, effective retroactive to Jan. 23, following a Sept. 3 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1990) Floyd was further ordered to pay restitution totaling more than $76,000 to four clients. Floyd misappropriated client settlement funds and used the money to satisfy his personal financial obligations. (Case No. SC09-182) |
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Date Posted: January 23, 2010 Action Line Complaint: Marni Blayne Belkin Category: Lawyers
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Address
777 E Atlantic Ave., Suite C2-249
Delray Beach
Florida, County: Palm Beach
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Suspended for three years, effective retroactive to April 22, following an Aug. 13 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1998) In January, Belkin pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of conspiracy to file a false loan application, a felony. (Case No. SC09-720) |
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Date Posted: January 22, 2010 Action Line Complaint: Jerrold Keith Wingate Category: Lawyers
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Address
PO Box 412617
Republic of South Africa ZA
South Africa, County: unavailable
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Disbarred effective 30 days from a July 2 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1992) Wingate’s law firm handled numerous lawsuits for plaintiffs against a cruise line. Over the period of a year-and-a-half ending in September 2007, paralegals employed and supervised by Wingate paid cash to an informant from the cruise line’s risk management department to provide them with confidential information related to the lawsuits. Wingate, the two paralegals and a bookkeeper each contributed funds to start his law firm and fees received from the settlement of the cruise line cases were divided between them. (Case No. SC09-114) |
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Date Posted: January 22, 2010 Action Line Complaint: William Francis Sullivan IV Category: Lawyers
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Address
P.O. Box 430730
South Miami
Florida, County: Miami/ Dade
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Disbarred effective immediately, following a July 2 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1965) In connection with his primarily personal injury law practice, Sullivan received client funds and failed to preserve and apply them as required by Bar rules regulating trust accounts. (Case No. SC09-1062) |
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Date Posted: January 22, 2010 Action Line Complaint: Robert H. Springer Category: Lawyers
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Address
2290 10th Ave., Suite 406
Lake Worth
Florida, County: Palm Beach
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Publicly reprimanded following a July 2 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1973) After representing a client in a matter, Springer improperly represented another person in the same matter in which that person’s interests were adverse to the interests of the former client. (Case No. SC09-971) |
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Date Posted: January 22, 2010 Action Line Complaint: Joel Lee Sherman Category: Lawyers
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Address
P.O. Box 10244
Tampa
Florida, County: Hillsborough
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Suspended for one year, effective 30 days from a July 2 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2003) In numerous instances, Sherman accepted retainer fees, often in the thousands of dollars, but neglected to communicate with the clients and failed to perform legal services. Sherman refused to respond to the several Bar inquiries. (Case Nos. SC08-1233 and SC08-2051) |
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Date Posted: January 22, 2010 Action Line Complaint: David Michael Scott Category: Lawyers
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Address
1815 Griffin Road, Suite 207
Dania
Florida, County: Broward
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Disbarred effective immediately, following a July 2 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1998) Scott was hired by clients in two separate cases and failed to provide services. In one instance, he received a retainer of more than $5,000 but failed to communicate with the client and eventually disappeared. A Bar audit found that Scott misappropriated approximately $18,150 in client trust funds. He ignored Bar inquires and failed to appear at related hearings. (Case No. SC09-193) |
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Date Posted: January 22, 2010 Action Line Complaint: Marc Stuart Schiller Category: Lawyers
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Address
7501 W. Oakland Park Blvd., Suite 201
Fort Lauderdale
Florida, County: Broward
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Publicly reprimanded following a July 1 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1995) Schiller failed to comply with Florida Bar advertising rules. Schiller committed related advertising offenses on two prior occasions and was admonished in 2004 and 2006. (Case No. SC08-259)
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Date Posted: January 22, 2010 Action Line Complaint: R. Eric Rubio Category: Lawyers
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Address
619 Stone Drive
Brandon
Florida, County: Hillsborough
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Publicly reprimanded, following a July 16 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2001) Rubio failed to provide competent representation to clients in both bankruptcy and foreclosure proceedings. He neglected to act with required diligence and he neglected to properly communicate. Rubio also failed to appear at a hearing on a motion for sanctions related to his conduct and he did not advise the court of his unavailability. (Case No. SC09-218) |
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Date Posted: January 22, 2010 Action Line Complaint: Charles Houston Richards Jr. Category: Lawyers
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Address
1874 Piedmont Road, NE, Suite 595E
Atlanta
Georgia, County: unavailable
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Disbarred effective retroactive to Sept. 3, 2008, following a July 2 Court order. (Admitted to practice: 1986) Richards was disbarred from the State Bar of Georgia in September 2008. Richards was retained to represent two clients in separate cases and failed to provide services. In one instance, he was paid $8,000, but after the first month, failed to adequately communicate. In another case, Richards received funds for a client in a worker’s compensation settlement. He deducted more than the agreed upon fee from the funds and failed to allow the client to review the disbursements made to medical providers. (Case No. SC08-2043) |
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Date Posted: January 22, 2010 Action Line Complaint: Donald Joseph Murray Category: Lawyers
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Address
2000 Towerside Terrace, Apt. 1807
Miami
Florida, County: Miami/ Dade
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Suspended for three years, effective 30 days from a July 16 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1969) Murray failed to properly supervise a suspended attorney who subsequently committed real estate fraud while employed by Murray. (Case No. SC09-111) |
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Date Posted: January 22, 2010 Action Line Complaint: Michael A. Moulis Category: Lawyers
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Address
1100 Lee Wagener Blvd., Suite 114
Fort Lauderdale
Florida, County: Broward
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Suspended for 90 days, effective 30 days from a July 16 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1999) Moulis is further placed on probation for one year, effective immediately. On numerous occasions between 2007 and 2008, the Bar was notified by a bank that fees had been deducted against insufficient funds on Moulis’ trust account. An audit found trust account shortages for each month of the audit period. Moulis used his trust account for personal purposes as well as for trust funds, he failed to maintain the required minimum trust account records and he was not in substantial compliance with the minimum trust accounting requirements. (Case Nos. SC08-1814 and SC09-286) |
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Date Posted: January 22, 2010 Action Line Complaint: Julio Ricardo More Category: Lawyers
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Address
115 W. 49th St.
Hialeah
Florida, County: Miami/ Dade
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Publicly reprimanded and placed on probation for six months, effective immediately, following a July 2 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1989) More disseminated a television advertisement regarding foreclosure defense which aired numerous times in 2008 on a Miami television station. The ad was not filed with the Bar’s standing committee on advertising, it did not contain More’s name as the lawyer responsible for the content and it was misleading. (Case No. SC09-969) |
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Date Posted: January 22, 2010 Action Line Complaint: John Michael Moody II Category: Lawyers
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Address
419 NE 23rd St.
Wilton Manors
Florida, County: Broward
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Disbarred for five years, effective immediately, following a July 16 court order. (Admitted to practice: 2004) In October 2008, Moody was sentenced to four months in a federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release. He was charged with intimidating and assaulting flight attendants while an aircraft was airborne. (Case No. SC08-2248)
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Date Posted: January 22, 2010 Action Line Complaint: Lawrence Daniel Montekio Category: Lawyers
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Address
1990 Main Street, Suite 750
Sarasota
Florida, County: Sarasota
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Suspended for one year, effective 30 days from a July 2 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1990) Upon reinstatement, Montekio is further placed on probation for two years. In at least four cases between 2007 and 2008, Montekio was retained by clients and failed to perform legal services. He neglected to communicate with the clients and the Bar and in one case, he misrepresented the truth to a client and a judge and failed to respond to a subpoena. (Case No. SC08-2015)
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Date Posted: January 22, 2010 Action Line Complaint: Jerome David Mitchell Category: Lawyers
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Address
1326 S. Ridgewood Ave., Suite 8
Daytona Beach
Florida, County: Volusia
Phone Number Unavailble
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Overview
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| Disbarred for 10 years effective immediately, following a July 2 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1994) From about 2005 though Dec. 2007, Mitchell was a title issuing agent and closed numerous loans on behalf of the Attorneys’ Title Insurance Fund. In the course of conducting those transactions, Mitchell failed to remit approximately $25 million to satisfy existing mortgages and encumbrances. (Case No. SC09-1058)
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