Florida Supreme Court has recently disciplined 15 attorneys
Leslie H. Smith, spokesman for the Department of Lawyer Regulation of The Florida Bar informed local Historic City News reporters that the Florida Supreme Court has recently disciplined 15 attorneys, disbarring five, revoking the licenses of two, suspending six, and reprimanding three. Two attorneys were ordered to pay restitution.
Attorneys suspended for periods of 91 days and longer must undergo a rigorous process to regain their law licenses including proving rehabilitation. Disciplinary revocation is tantamount to disbarment.
Gerald W. Adams, 1314 E. Las Olas Blvd., Suite 1059, Fort Lauderdale, disbarred effective immediately following an April 28 court order. (Admitted to practice: 1984) Adams continued to engage in the practice of law in contempt of the Supreme Court’s Order of Suspension by continuing to run his law firm. Attempting to circumvent the rules, Adams transferred ownership of the firm to his office ma
Last month, this newspaper published a boxed registrar of companies advert, in terms of Subsection (2) Art 325 of the 1995 Companies Act, advising all and sundry that the company registered in its records with the Number C443, The National Bank of Malta Limited, would be struck off its register – and, hence, out of living existence – if, by March 7, 2021 nobody or no entity comes forward with valid reasons why it, the registry, should not do so.
The Number C443 is clearly suggestive of the notion that, ever since company registration with this country’s official registrar became law after, first, the Commercial Partnerships Ordnance of 1962 and, later, when the present Companies Act was passed in 1995, this banking company was, in fact, one of the earlier companies to formally register in conformity with the new law.