Opinion
Case No. SC06-939.
June 15, 2006.
Lower Tribunal No. 2006-50,949(17I)FES.
The Amended Consent Judgment for Emergency Suspension filed pursuant to Rule 3-5.2 of the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar is approved and it is hereby ordered that the respondent is suspended from the practice of law until further order of this Court, and respondent is ordered:
a. To accept no new clients from the date of this Court's order and to cease representing any clients after thirty (30) days of this Court's order.
b. To immediately furnish a copy of respondent's suspension order to all clients, opposing counsel and courts before which respondent is counsel of record as required by Rule 3-5.1(g) of the Rules of Discipline of The Florida Bar and to furnish Staff Counsel of The Florida Bar with the requisite affidavit listing all clients, opposing counsel and courts so informed within thirty (30) days of this Court's order.
c. To refrain from disbursing or withdrawing any monies from any trust account and client accounts, including estate accounts, without approval of the Florida Supreme Court, a referee appointed by the Florida Supreme Court, or by order of the Circuit Court in an inventory proceeding instituted under the Rules Regulating The Florida Bar.
d. To deposit into a specified trust account all sums received from the practice of law, whether as fees, costs, deposits, or trust funds, within thirty (30) days of this Court's order and to immediately advise Bar Counsel of the receipt and location of said funds.
e. To immediately notify in writing all financial institutions in which respondent maintains trust accounts of the provisions of respondent's suspension and to provide said financial institutions with a copy of this Court's order, and furthermore, to provide Bar Counsel with a copy of the notice sent to each financial institution.
Judgment is entered for The Florida Bar, 651 East Jefferson Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2300, for recovery of costs from Harley Rosenthal 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. The filing of a motion for rehearing shall not alter the effective date of this suspension.