Opinion
Case No. SC10-1660.
January 7, 2011.
Lower Tribunal No(s). 2011-50,227(17)(D)OSC.
The Florida Bar filed a Petition for Contempt alleging that the Repondent has failed to respond to official bar inquiries. This Court issued an Order to Show Cause to the Respondent to respond by a date certain why he should not be held in contempt and suspended until such time as he fully complied in writing to the official bar inquiries. The Respondent alleges that he has now responded to the inquiries albeit not in a timely manner. The Court takes very seriously every attorney's obligation to completely and timely respond to inquiries made by The Florida Bar. Therefore, because this Respondent did not respond to the inquiries in a timely manner, Mark Howard Klein is hereby held in contempt and is hereby publicly reprimanded.
Judgment is entered for The Florida Bar, 651 East Jefferson Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2300, for recovery of costs from Mark Howard Klein in the amount of $1,250.00, for which sum let execution issue.
Not final until time expires to file motion for rehearing, and if filed, determined.
CANADY, C.J. and PARIENTE, LEWIS, QUINCE, POLSTON, LABARGA, and PERRY, JJ., concur.