Absconding with money from an estate and letting assistants do a Lemon Law lawyer’s job are just two of the reasons lawyers from Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties wound up on the monthly Florida Bar report of attorneys disciplined by the state Supreme Court.
In alphabetical order:
Debbie Campbell, Coral Gables
Svetlana Kozlovskaia filed a Florida Bar complaint about Coral Gables attorney Debbie Campbell, alleging misappropriation of funds and other ethical violations. On Dec. 26, a subpoena demanded Campbell get the Campbell Legal Group’s trust account records from Jan. 1, 2019, through Nov. 30, 2023, to the Florida Bar by Jan. 19.
A week after the deadline, Campbell asked for an extension, arguing “proper due process” required she get a lawyer to help with the records, and “compressed trial dates and overburdened dockets” made lawyers hard to find in January. She got an extension, but still didn’t come across with the records demanded.
The Bar filed a petition for contempt on March 27. After an extension, Campbell answered on May 6 that she’d told the Bar she wanted to “immediately begin the process of entering a consent judgment, the procedures for making an admission of minor misconduct, and engage in all efforts to settle the matter.”