Shortly after a Broward court said a Fort Lauderdale lawyer owed a former client $234,000, a Florida Bar audit said that attorney misappropriated $452,000 from another client’s estate.
John Jenkins, aka “Spencer,” hasn’t disputed the above. That’s part of the problem — he’s gone dark.
Jenkins stopped responding to both those clients and a third. When the Florida Bar inquired about the first two clients, he ghosted that organization, too. He didn’t file paperwork by September to keep Jenkins Law Firm registered as doing business in Florida. His mobile phone number has been disconnected. The number to his New York office also isn’t connected.
He’s been suspended since November until he answers Florida Bar inquiries regarding his abandonment of clients Stealth Supply and Peter Mullins.
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Stealth Supply filed a Bar complaint that claimed Jenkins mishandled, then abandoned their case. Mullins sued Jenkins and got a $234,000 judgment plus interest in September. So thoroughly did Jenkins abandon a lawsuit he was handling for Mullins, the suit against Jenkins said, Mullins didn’t know about the judgment against him until a lien had been put on his real estate.